Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joys and pains of being a scientist, particularly one with his own personal ideas about how the world works. Sometimes, all three seem to share the frustration of Ed Fredkin, who tells the author, "I feel like I'm the only person with eyes in a world that's blind...
Soon enough he was the circus. When a presidential blind trust effectively cut him out of the Carter warehouse business that he had run for years, Billy began drinking heavily. He ran for mayor of Plains, and was defeated. To pay back taxes, he had to sell his property, even the filling station -- "the only thing that was really mine." He became a registered agent for Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya, with a $220,000 Libyan "loan...
Dingman was one of the 10 speakers assembled to speak briefly about Wilson, a blind member of the class of '88 who died on September 15, 1988 at age 21, after fighting a life-long battle against cancer...
...Bizarre Is Better. With the debate panel composed entirely of reporters, it will be easy to anticipate most of their earnest questions. Do you really think Dukakis would be unprepared for a query on balancing the budget, or Bush blind-sided by the Iran-contra affair? But despite the practice sessions, one or two out-of-nowhere questions may slip through the rehearsal radar. Both candidates might be flummoxed by a panelist who simply asks them to justify their lifelong aversion to reading novels. You can probably tell when to be alert; neither Bush nor Dukakis is a good enough...
...half a dozen computer companies has been meeting under the auspices of the Federal Government. One tangible result: the tiny bumps on the touch-typing "home" keys, which are now standard equipment on all Apple keyboards. "You still have to learn how to type," says Karl Dahlke, a blind software engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Ill. In that regard, however, the able and the disabled are on equal footing -- which is just how the handicapped like things...