Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leave the country. When the local Foreign Correspondents Association protested the government's "sinister" expulsions policy, it received an angry retort from the Deputy Information Minister, Louis Nel. The real problem, said the peppery Nel, was that "most foreign journalists have consistently misrepresented South Africa abroad by turning a blind eye to constructive developments...
...Calif., the chairman of the House civil rights subcommittee, said that the high court "recognizes that in order to get beyond racism and sexism, we often must take race and sex into consideration. It's both silly and naive to think that we live in a color-and gender-blind society that would allow the passive policies of the Justice Department to work...
...quotas to set aside 10% of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses under a public-works act passed by Congress. Supreme Court Expert Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute suggests that Scalia would not "cotton to" such a decision and predicts a "move to a more color-blind jurisprudence." In a 1979 article in the Washington University Law Quarterly, Scalia bluntly stated his views: "I am, in short, opposed to racial affirmative action for reasons of both principle and practicality. Sex-based affirmative action presents somewhat different constitutional issues, but it seems to me an equally poor idea...
...scared to say," Spires said. "He will get into spirituals if you let him." As he talked the blind man gave directions. Going down a dirt road, after a certain time had passed, if he did not feel the car rounding a curve, a wrong turn had been made--the same for crossing a railroad track, or a bridge, or descending a hill. His navigational skills were dead on the money...
...South Africa and the West. We believe the strategy of the West is not to give South Africa any credit, in any circumstances. You in the West are blind and insensitive to the possibility of the South African Communist Party ruling this country. You will shrug your shoulders and say, "Well, it is better than apartheid." Maybe. But you are not concerned about what the results would be and what would happen to the rest of Africa. In Mozambique and Angola, the facts are readily available of the repression, the suffering, the dying in these countries after nine years...