Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you described the space shuttle, you were blind to its most poetic resemblance. It looks like the Taj Mahal...
...space-shuttle program is fascinating, but it also calls to mind the adage: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king. Little wonder that the Soviet Union should be so eager to get its own project off the ground. For the rest of us, the prospect of two purblind princelings contending high above for the throne of the kingdom is terrifying...
Lessons drawn from unique circumstances are usually wrong, but in the case of Iran the impulse to understand what has happened to the U.S. in the past 14½ months may offer the only way out of a blind rage. Blindness has been a metaphor throughout. The U.S. was blind not to see the extent and temper of the Iranian revolution against the Shah; blind fanatics seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran; the Ayatullah Khomeini's blind sense of vengeance sanctioned the seizure; and the hostages suffered their own blindness, held in solitary and the dark. All year long...
Super Bowl: Oakland 27, Philadelphia 10 Taste Test: 50 per cent of confirmed Michelob drinkers preferred Schlitz in a blind taste-test at Super Bowl half-time yesterday...
...their own financial interests. The 1978 act puts real teeth into that idea, requiring a more detailed disclosure of assets and thus opening up a broad range of hitherto ignored potential conflicts. In addition, the new law makes it much harder for officials to dump their holdings into a blind trust. Under that arrangement, a trustee exercises control over the assets, theoretically shielding the officeholder from conflicts of interest. Yet these devices tended to be what former Senator Abe Ribicoff called "blind trusts with 20/20 vision." The official often knew what he held...