Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco, two supervisors for Pacific Telephone embarked on a fairly routine repair of a neighborhood box of circuits at 6 p.m. and did not make it back to their office until 4 a.m. Said Eileen Short, Pacific Telephone's maintenance manager: "Sometimes it's the blind leading the blind. They're hanging in there, but we'll see how long they can." Adding to the pressure, vandals slashed telephone cables and temporarily cut off service to several small pockets of homes and businesses across...
...baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision -it would be rated about 20/500, or "legally blind," as one expert puts it, but eyesight develops rapidly. Newborns start by looking at the edges of things, exploring. Even when the lights are turned out, as infra-red cameras show, an infant's eyes open wide to carry on its investigation of its surroundings. At eight weeks, it can differentiate between shapes of objects as well as colors (generally preferring red, then blue); at three months, it begins to develop stereoscopic vision...
...just the wrong note with his tough talk about "going to the source." He meant Cuba. He seemed to be suggesting that if the U.S. could just clobber Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua would behave, or better yet, go away. He also inadvertently aroused suspicion that he was blind to indigenous sources of turmoil, such as poverty and social injustice...
...they are interested in the long-term implementation of an agreement. Western businessmen, on the other hand, may tend to look more at the shorter term. "The American feeling is that it's the horse buyer's fault if he fails to ask whether a horse is blind," says George White of the Harvard Business School. "For the Japanese, however, a deal is more of a discussion of where mutual interests...
...might have noticed that he was accompanied by a female attorney. This fact, given that the man was born in 1900 and was a ripe 20 before American women even acquired the vote, made him a somewhat progressive member of the pre-Virginia Slims generation. But, like the Three Blind Mice, close-minded and superficial feminists neither see nor understand the real human beings who surround them daily...