Let us not, henceforward, judge Israel or seek to have it judged for its intelligence, for its prowess, for its righteousness or for its moral authority, by any standard other than the pathetic, debased and rickety one that we apply, so inconsistently and self-servingly, to ourselves and to everybody else.
"So we decided to release it, so we can move forward with the case and have it judged on its merits".
GM has already had to kill off its Oldsmobile brand, which it judged to be not worth reviving.
Boeing doesn't get brownie points for engaging in regulatory arbitrage and stiffing its unions just because it judged that move to be best for shareholders.
At the Copenhagen climate negotiations last December, the EU tried to demonstrate leadership by repeating a 2007 pledge that it would increase its planned cuts to 30% if it judged the commitments by others to be suitably inspiring.
It judged that for now, expanding its loans to banks and securities dealers, and broadening the collateral it accepts from banks, addresses the crisis better than looser monetary policy would, though it may yet decide further rate cuts are necessary.Still, the Fed has lent so heavily to the most beleaguered financial firms that it is running out of bonds.
That's a basic step that unions always try to negotiate for, since without it they find it very hard to establish themselves as the negotiating partner with management.Anyway, here's the sentence I found most amusing in the WSJ's editorial: "Boeing management did what it judged to be best for its shareholders and customers and looked elsewhere".
It judged that the record's "power lies in its restraint" and that there is an "urgency underlying virtually all of the 11 songs".
Produced by a company called VOGBR, it judged the dam as safe.
The report estimated the total cost at six hundred billion dollars, which it judged financially imprudent.
The bank said a steady monetary-policy stance was appropriate while it judged the impact of recent interest-rate increases.
