Word: shortsightedness
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The President should point out clearly that an attack on North Vietnam is consistent with neither American goals in South Vietnam nor American's interest in world peace. To consider attacking the Hanoi regime is a shortsighted view that can little enhance American interests in Southeast Asia and which threatens...
In a celebrated 1956 attack on the principle of nonalignment, John Foster Dulles defined neutralism as a policy that "pretends that a nation can best gain safety for itself by being indifferent to the fate of others." It is, Dulles added, "an immoral and shortsighted conception."
But then there were lots of unanswered questions. And no one was more interested in the answers than the Internal Revenue Service, which stood to lose some $44,000 of the winner's loot. For where a single ticket holder (estimated on a fairly shortsighted basis to have a...
Despite these agonies, or because of them-Wiener himself could not decide-the precocious child was reading ponderous books at the age of six. His shortsighted eyes almost went blind when he was eight, but he graduated from the Ayer, Mass., high school at twelve and got his B.A. from...
Bosses in Tandem. J. & L. has had its share of hard times. The company emerged from World War II with facilities that a shortsighted management had allowed to fall into desperate disrepair. The long, slow rebuilding process started by Admiral Ben Moreell in 1947 gathered momentum when Avery Comfort Adams...