Word: myopia
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Heath cited statistics indicating that it will be at least 40 years before Europe catches up economically with the United States, and he suggested that it would probably take a good deal longer even than that. Heath placed much of the blame for this lag on the "economic myopia" of European industrialists who fail to see beyond their own countries' borders...
...clear from "Battle Over a Budget" [Jan. 20] that in his first weeks as Governor, Ronald Reagan has shown an ineptitude that astonishes even those of us who opposed his election. His economic myopia was not unexpected; in his crash program to "save" the California economy in 1967, Reagan has, by shortchanging the university, hit one of the institutions most responsible for this state's wealth and prestige. What is surprising is that he has also bungled his public relations. His inconsistent statements, his embarrassing lack of information, and his failure to consult the legislature and university officials before...
...Reagan's face is a map of wrinkles; yet at a distance on a rostrum he seems young enough to be giving his all once more for good old Notre Dame. His cheeks flush, the light blue eyes sparkle (through untinted contact lenses that correct his lifelong myopia), the lanky (6 ft. 1 in.) figure seems to tower over his audience...
...deal of truth in this. As Ambassador he made extensive tours of all but seven of Japan's 46 provinces--he would have made it to all of them except that in April of 1964 he was stabbed by a fanatic protesting the lack of government funds to cure myopia in Japan. In addition to his speaking tours, Reischauer was widely published, and appeared on Japanese television a number of times...
Trouble found the golf team yesterday. In a wild match at Myopia Hunt Club, Brown clobbered the Crimson, 5-2, and Harvard is still trying to figure out how it all happened...