Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canada is left to stand alone in protecting one of the world's last fisheries, for the benefit of the international community and, perversely, against its opposition. Thank God that strong countries exist to protect against this type of myopic ravaging of natural resources. "Political unions" won't mean a damn thing when our global and moral community go bankrupt...
...believe that Murray's work is as evil as the Holocaust? It appears so, since he declares that the debate over The Bell Curve is nothing less than a "struggle between good and evil." But not only is such a comment pointless sophistry, it also shows a disturbing, morally myopic view of the Holocaust and other truly evil events. Charles Barzun...
...National Air and Space Museum is but a brief stroll away from the United States Holocaust Memorial. Of late, however, these two federally-run institutions have come to embody two opposite approaches to the study of America's past: one reasonable and fair, the other paranoid and myopic...
...generation is frequently accused of being myopic and too obsessed with our own affairs to take an interest in the world of generations past. It is disheartening to see that these accusation may have some basis in fact. Without history (the history of popular culture included), we have no means of meaningfully analyzing the institutions of the present and future...
There will always be representatives and senators willing to further undercut the public's perception of Washington. Newt Gingrich, the number-two House Republican, has tried for years to strike down a Democratic House. As long as someone sees a benefit in doing so, the law of politics--myopic as it is--will provide an actor to play the role...