Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life. The feeding frenzy--by the press, elected officials in the Bay State and the public at-large--has been incredible. And many of those attacking Dukakis now (the Boston Globe and the state's democratic leadership spring to mind) were among his most vocal supporters just 12 short months...
...hours that followed, the mission proved short-sighted, even misguided. Israel should not be blamed for the apparent murder of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins by terrorists, even though the execution was in retaliation for Obeid's abduction. There is no question about that. The question is, however, how Israel could have failed to realize that their mission would backfire...
Ullman speculates that the same short-sided combatitive force which is trying to end the intifada by submission and violence dictated Israel's Obeid fiasco. It failed, said Ullman, and has driven a "wedge between Israel and its friends...
...Israelis were short-sided not because they believed that all would go as planned. Indeed, it is hard to believe that they expected all to go according to plans...
...course offerings it is nothing short of regressive. We might as well take E. D. Hirsch's advice to heart and become "culturally literate." Harvard is challenging us with very little more than that...