Word: blinds
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...read in newspapers and magazines or watch on television or hear on radio. This memory tends to become submerged once the campaign is won and the candidate takes up residence in Washington. Then the capital, with its curious mixture of high ideals and hard work and base ambition and blind vanity, becomes the universe: If I am so famous that the Washington Post is writing about me, then, of course, the whole world is reading...
Hart blundered badly last week in a speech at Springfield, Ill., by obliquely questioning Mondale's "personal integrity" and muttering about "an inordinate need for power . . . blind ambition . . . destructive assault." He was responding to information from his staff that the Mondale campaign was running TV ads in New York emphasizing the changes Hart had made in his family name, reported date of birth and even the way he signs his name. In fact, no such ads had run. At his next campaign stop, in Galesburg little more than an hour later, Hart admitted, "We were incorrectly informed" and added...
Rights-based 'criticisms of affirmative action are not new, nor are they specious. Recent years have witnessed heightened debate from those who believe society can never deviate from absolute race-and sex-blind treatment--even to reverse the effects of past discrimination...
...budget for financial and will also increase by at least the same percentage, meaning that Harvard will continue its policy of aid blind admissions. The governing Corporation approved both raises at a meeting yesterday...
Alits end, the article notes that "If Israel took the trouble to try to understand its Moslem neighbors rather than blindly hate them, it could learn an important lesson." On many levels, Israel knows its Moslem neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected...