Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Justice may not have been blind, but it was probably seeing double. Jurors in the District of Columbia superior court had been deliberating a day and a half in the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl when Foreman Robert Smoot sent a note to Judge Fred Ugast. A decision was impossible, wrote Smoot, unless two jurors were replaced. In a corner of the note Smoot penned, "Drinking problem...
...almost everyone is mortal and clumsy when scandal hits him on the blind side. In the past few years an interesting though not always persuasive variation has become popular with U.S. Congressmen: the alcoholic-deflective approach. Actually, it amounts to a plea of temporary insanity. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle...
...have solved social problems in the past. Why this blind spot, this paralysis about a national gun control...
...AWACS radar is a breakthrough as well, according to experts. All ground-based radar suffers a serious blind spot: if enemy planes fly low enough, they escape detection. Any craft flying within the Sentry's electronic swath, however, is spotted within moments of its takeoff, and AWACS will not (as does most other airborne radar) confuse trees and houses with aircraft. From each Sentry the positions of scores of planes and ships-enemy and ally alike-can be tracked automatically, and this information can be interpreted by a crew of 14 specialists. The Saudis' Sentries would be even...
...still dominate business, is helping confirm an increasing foreign skepticism about American management itself. Why is it, for example, that so much of U.S. plant and equipment has become considerably older than that of Japan? To newly assertive foreign experts, the misguided emphasis on short-term profit seems to blind U.S. managers to the need for more research and development; moreover, they appear unable to develop long-range problems of chronic inflation and soaring energy costs. And why has quality been declining? Partly because U.S. professional managers have cared less about what they produce than about selling it -and less...