Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have surrounded Reagan over the years, he has not sought to cash in his position for great wealth. But he is careless, perhaps uncomprehending, too hurried and a bad judge of people, events and ethical strictures. Whether or not he has committed a crime, he has too often proved blind to the elevated standards expected of the top law officer in the land. The improprieties are easy for the public to understand: he appeared to help friends who helped him financially...
...clear that certain sports don't have what it takes to attract spectators. Whatever vital quality it is that they lack, it tends to be gender-blind. No matter how many Eastern titles the men's swimming team wins, the squad's season crowd total probably wouldn't fill Bright Center...
Harvard boasts about its need-blind admission policy and the fact that 70 percent of its students receive financial aid. Do students on financial aid receive assistance and support with the expense of graduating from this school? If not, how many of these students and/or their families choose not to attend because of the cost? This university opens its doors and welcomes students without regard to ethnic and socio-economic back-round, then reminds some on their way out that they are still not on equal footing with their graduating classmates...
...matchmakers, zoo officials tried to anticipate their charges' libidinal needs. Molloko's parents lived for three years in a "condorminium" measuring 40 ft. by 80 ft. by 22 ft. high -- enough room for condor courtship. Since human contact might distract the big birds, staff members observed them from a blind. Says David Rimlinger, manager of the San Diego park's bird department: "They had plenty of privacy, and the enclosure was big enough for them to get away from each other if they wanted...
...rights and the Viet Nam War. But error, for the most part, is acknowledged through gritted teeth. Reunion contains a breathlessly credulous account of his 1965 visit to Hanoi, replete with references to the pride and dignity of the North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind to the core of authoritarianism" in Hanoi. It is a "yes, but" apology, balanced with renewed assaults on the flaws in U.S. policy, and it appears to carry a subliminal message: We radicals were on the side of the angels; we did not deserve to be wrong...