Word: myopia
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...Enemy. Having made this proposition, Rivera burbled happily on: "I am an atheist, that's true, and I think any individual suffering from religion is sick. But . . . I'm not an enemy of Catholics any more than I am an enemy of those suffering from tuberculosis, myopia, paralysis...
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Opposition to the Truman nomination exhibits, even from McKellar's partisan point of view, a case of political myopia. By attempting to institute the spoils system in atomic control, the former Senate President Pro Tem is dividing the few remaining Democrats, and rapidly convincing a worldful of people that American statesmen are still juggling the A-bomb in a Congressional circus...
...special problems and its refusal to consider long-run effects on the nation as a whole. In support of his thesis, the author cites labor's featherbedding, the gouge of "parity prices" for the farmer, consumer insistence on price control, and similar examples of what to him is selfish myopia which can only restrict production...
Management's main crime, according to Johnson, is "executive myopia ... a disease of those with high rank ... organized razzle-dazzle, the derangement of top management, otherwise known as 'industrial bureaucracy.' " Specifically, business has "plunked for the lowest wages" when it should have become the "champion of the underpaid. ... Is there no one in business who will think of being ahead of the next catastrophe instead of running after the one that has already happened...