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Risk Aversion or Myopia? An Analysis of Repeated Decision Making--by Richard Thaler, Cornell University and Russell Sage Institute. HBS, Cumnock 330, 4 p.m. Tuesday, 7 April...
...there should be no embarrassment in acknowledging that homosexuality exists within one's ethnic family. In their myopia, the Hibernians have ignored the right of fellow human beings to choose a lifestyle and to be honest about that choice...
...space, the inexcusable myopia of the $1.5 billion Hubble telescope, the balky antenna that endangers the $1.3 billion Galileo mission to Jupiter, and even the Challenger disaster and the shuttle's subsequent troubles gave space science a bad name -- notwithstanding the fact that the failures resulted not from scientific errors but largely from managerial blunders and budgetary constraints...
Dershowitz's moral myopia is further evidenced by his abiding animosity for "the Germans...as a people...
Another tragic example of the fiscal myopia of the Reagan era is the paucity of investment in America's future economic health, by way of improvements in human resources and physical infrastructure. Between 1984 and 1986, while military spending grew 13 percent, government spending for economic programs (including transportation and civilian research and development) declined by 0.6 percent, and federal funding for education declined by 1.8 percent...