Word: myopic
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...policy towards Cuba a policy that has changed little since Castro took power more than three decades years ago. Unfortunately, the Clinton administration has not availed itself of the opportunity, preferring instead to congratulate itself on its short-term victory and to ignore the larger implications of its myopic foreign policy...
...noted with disgust your front page story, "Kenya Bandits Chase First-Year-to-Be," The Harvard Crimson, April 16, 1994, by Jeffrey N. Gell. This is a typical example of the myopic, ignorant and racist attitude that the Western media often adopts in covering African affairs and to see such being promulgated in your paper makes a statement about the supposedly "educated" lot in North America...
...scandal, say some in Washington, serves as an overdue wake-up call for the U.S. government -- a notice that the benign esteem in which the Clinton foreign policy team holds Russia is dangerously myopic. The Ames scandal "ends the simpleminded optimism that we could have a relationship with Russia that would be without clouds," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The simpleminded confidence that Yeltsin is a good guy is naive...
...Hubble rescue is by far the most difficult mission since the moon landings. The crew was set to perform at least five six-hour space walks, and maybe up to seven, in order to replace or repair the telescope's myopic primary mirror, an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components -- 11 fixes in all. Says mission scientist Edward Weiler sardonically: "This is not a trip to Grandma's house to fix the faucet...
...estimate, tell camera people what to do, organize film material. But this wish to be creative excludes many things. My view is very narrow," she explains, raising her hands in front of her face like the sides of the camera frame. Her vision was acute within that frame but myopic outside it, in the real Welt, where other Germans noticed things were going evil. If blinkered, though, she was not unique among artists in Germany, Japan or the Soviet Union...