Word: shortsightedness
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The small bits of Government-owned land near large urban areas are often this country's most valuable recreation assets. To sell to a developer a parcel of beachfront property like Fort DeRussy in Honolulu, the last open spot along Waikiki Beach, is not just shortsighted, it is criminal...
Many of RCA's current woes stem from some hasty and shortsighted acquisitions that were made during the 1960s and '70s when the firm, like many other big American corporations, tried to boost earnings by diversifying into fields far outside its traditional lines of business. The entertainment and...
Not everything the victorious British did was so wise, and if they had not been so shortsighted in some ways, America might now be a much larger country than it is. Not wanting to offend the Indians-or interfere with the lucrative fur trade-London continued to prohibit settlements west...
After a drawn-out legal battle sensationalized by the local and national press, Milligan won--for a while. He was found not guilty and committed to a top-drawer mental health institution, just as his attorneys had requested. But ambitious politicians--the same sort who needlessly shuttle off marginal offenders...
"There are some cuts you must be able to make in defense,' Giamatti said, adding that "To continue to cut in education is shortsighted."