Word: blindingly
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Warrior Image. The assets are mainly held through numbered bank accounts and blind names to prevent Israeli retaliation-and also to camouflage the wealth of a movement that prides itself on its warrior image. Much of the investment has been handled by the Arab Bank Ltd., a vigorous Amman-based banking house, controlled by Palestinians, with assets of $4 billion and branches or joint ventures in 19 countries, including the U.S. The Arab Bank is widely known in the Middle East as the P.L.O. Bank, but its Jerusalem-born president, Abdel Majeed Shoman, 65, is handsomely repaid for whatever risks...
Youthful criminals prey on the most defenseless victims. The very young, the old, the lame, sick and blind are slugged, slashed and shot. They have retreated with broken limbs and emotional scars behind triple-locked doors. Many never venture out at night; some do not even risk the streets during the day. In confinement, their anguish is not heard. Often poor and not well educated, they do not know where to turn or how to complain...
...Qusaibi, 37, Minister of Industry and Electricity, received his master's degree in international relations from the University of Southern California. A big, round-faced man, Qusaibi wears thick-lensed glasses because, as he explains, "when I was a child in Al Hasa province, I almost went blind as we had no medical facilities." He presides over the single largest industrial project in history: the construction of an $11 billion gas-gathering project that will take the natural gas flared away at Saudi wells and liquefy it for shipment abroad...
...post-World War II generation of students. "You've just got to have a varied student body, and that includes athletes, if you're going to continue to attract the right kind of students, he says. As a result, the ancient taboo against recruiting in any form does not blind the admissions office to the practical needs of the athletic staff...
...statistics earned the admissions office a great deal of praise from everyone for its smooth implementation of the sex-blind equalaccess policy adopted by the College two years...