Word: shortsightedness
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Your article "The Siege of Seabrook" [May 16] made the efforts of the Clamshell Alliance seem puny. They are not. Faced with the powerful pro-nuke combine of Government and Big Business, Clamshell seems to have opted for visibility in order to persuade others to support its cause. Its methods...
> Penalizing owners of gas-guzzling cars with heavy taxes may depress the auto industry and increase unemployment. General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy calls the plan "one of the most simplistic, irresponsible and shortsighted ideas ever conceived." Said Douglas Fraser, a shoo-in as the next president of the United Auto...
Kilson compounds this situation by tossing religion into what should be a clearcut question of morality in University policy: he blames the debate on "some elements among Jews." Considering the widespread national publicity given the Moonies" actions in our leading newspapers, magazines, and television networks, I find his statement frightfully...
In any case, the affair produced some unconcealed jubilation in Israel. Gloated the independent Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot: "Sadat certainly learned that while he is engaged in world politics, his own house is about to fall in on him. One cannot foster imperial greatness while going bankrupt at home...
So when students struck and occupied University Hall in 1969, the Faculty appointed a "Committee of Fifteen" to decide not only what to do with the students involved in that protest, but what the Faculty's future policy on protesters should be. It was the Committee of Fifteen that determined...