Word: myopic
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...dwindling landfill space in their own countries, many companies in industrialized nations simply pay developing countries to accept their wastes. In a strict Ec 10 interpretation of the transaction, everything is OK. Both parties presumably benefit from a mutually agreeable exchange, even when that exchange involves something as fiscally myopic as cash for environmental destruction...
VALDEZ, Alaska--Alaska's top environmental official testified yesterday that a "reluctant and myopic" Exxon stalled efforts to clean up the nation's largest oil spill by largely ignoring damage outside the immediate spill zone...
...industry's response was reluctant and myopic, chacterized by stalling techniques, disinformation, and a refusal to pay real attention to damage outside of Prince William Sound," Kelso told the five-member subcommittee of the House Interior Committee...
...prints and not a few of his paintings, moves from being a philosophical exercise into a sort of frenzy, a despairing assault on a world of terminal evil. Greed, whoring, pederasty, witchcraft and the religious bigotry that was its mirror image, the brutality of the low and the myopic arrogance of the high, and above all the limitless cruelties inflicted in the name of orthodoxy (by the Inquisition) and political conquest (by the invading French and their guerrilla opponents): these possess him as they have possessed no other artist before or since. Seen through his encyclopedic vision of folly...
...been far too long since America had competent leadership. The Administration has shown a myopic lack of concern about the people of this nation. Women, laborers and the poor all need a president who is willing to take on their concerns and give them a voice. America needs a democratic president and the Democrat who can win, who can give them that voice, is Dick Gephardt...