Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League schools are reconsidering their policy of aid-blind admissions--whereby students are admitted regardless of financial need-because of federal budget cutbacks officials said this week...
Like artists of every stripe, the best historians make their work look easy.Their research may have been long and arduous, but they filter the odor of archival dust and mildew out of the finished product. Also gone are the blind alleys and dead ends, all the large and petty frustrations of scholarship. Few readers mind being spared such details. Yet the tracks that historians cover are sometimes as fascinating as the past they recapture...
...West Pakistan that the United States lent its support, refusing to condemn its ally even as reports of the carnage mounted and the number of refugees in Indian camp across the border ballooned to more than nine million. The atrocities became more apparent, but the U.S. administration turned a blind eye, continuing even arms shipments to the military regime. Evidently, friendship with Yah Yah was a necessary step toward Nixon and Kissinger's goal that year, diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China. It stuck to its Pakistani policy despite heated criticisms from Democratic congressmen, including Sen. Edward...
...fear and bewilderment of people who live near places like Three Mile Island and Ginna, who realize that their safety is a pawn in a political game. Perhaps we may yet come to our senses and start closing down the 71 plants that stand like so many monuments to blind faith in technology and technocracy. But time is short, and the danger of a disaster grows each day. Nothing that has happened lately in Washington offers any hope of diminishing that danger...
...Bernard L . Towers, co-director of trhe CCLA program in Medicine, Law and Human Values, said recentrly, "There is ano question that the medical profession is remiss in policing itslef. There is a lot that goes on that people turn a blind eye to and a great many people don't want to get involved" At least some leaders of the medical profession are tryhing to change that...