Word: myopia
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...myopia rampant in recent Latin American policy indicates the emptiness of the Reagan Administration's entire anti-Soviet approach. Like Reagan, past presidents have invoked the name of democracy in pursuing their foreign policies across the globe. But with Wilson, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, something was different. We could honestly say that the nations the U.S. supported were more just and free than those it opposed. Now, we call the brutal dictators in Argentina our friends, and slap in the face a Nicaraguan government seeking to end U.S. hostility and ease the violent tensions in all of Central America Reagan...
Forgetfulness for whatever reason is an unforgivable sin for the American left, for it mirrors too closely the greed-induced myopia of our country's post-World War II foreign policy. El Salvador--indeed all of Latin America--provides a textbook case of this phenomenon, a classic example of the wrongheaded shortsightedness that loses us almost every Third World friend we have...
...body that photographed small, frail, bewildered. Fred and his sister Adele had danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years before Adele's marriage to an English lord, but to a movie mogul their stage success could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. In close-up Fred looked-and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted-like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test...
...test comes the wholes class is well prepared for two out of five questions. The answers to the other three will be uniformly gibberish. So the two questions will be the basis of the grading, which is fair. Furthermore, any professor will immediately notice that there is this collective myopia, they'll reconsider the sections the class seems to have ignored and either cut or improve them...
...perceived as a mixed blessing, clumsy, detracting from appearance, a sign of age. Contact lenses are not ideal either: often difficult to manage, uncomfortable to wear, easy to lose. Is there any other option? Some ophthalmologists now think there is. They say two common vision problems-near- and farsightedness (myopia and hyperopia)-can be corrected or eased with surgery that reshapes the cornea, the eye's outer covering...