Word: shortsightedness
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The U.S. should open its markets to much more oil from Canada, its closest and most reliable ally. Washington has long infuriated Canadians by treating their country as a "surge tank": drawing on it for supplies when shortages threaten, cutting back again when the pinch eases. That policy is economically...
Sir: I think you are both premature and extremely shortsighted to proclaim the demise of student activism and the crumbling of the counterculture. There may be a new mood, but I do not feel that it is that of a dying revolution. A revolution can take different forms. Your article...
2) It is extremely shortsighted to treat the issue of Jewish students' admissions in a manner that will help elevate ethnicity as such to a principle of admissions to Harvard College. The reported "investigation" of admissions status of Jews by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of the University Ministry will surely...
About politicians, Townsend is both bitter and occasionally shrewd. He presents well-researched episodes from the 1920s and 1930s, when air force commanders in both England and Germany struggled to strengthen their young units against the opposition of shortsighted, budget-obsessed political bosses. Even Churchill, as early as 1919 when...
Eventually, business will have to take a more active role in aiding drug-dependent workers, helping to support adequately staffed treatment centers. Dr. Rosenthal of Phoenix House says: "Not until private industry realizes that the drug user is increasingly white, bright and productive is it likely to take a rehabilitative...