Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...
...strikes are simply a short-term strategy to stop the Serb campaign against civilians. "There's no hope of any progress unless Milosevic makes some concessions, and so far he has given away nothing at all," says Calabresi. "He is pushing the situation toward violent confrontation." Perhaps the sight of Holbrooke will jog his memory...
...much relief in sight, even if the U.S. unemployment rate rises a bit from its 28-year low of 4.3%. In Austin, Texas, for example, the national rate is quite irrelevant. Unemployment there is officially 2.3%, and Steve Mays, director of a suburban grocery store, says only half-jokingly that it "is really minus 1.7%," given the "cannibalism" of employers' swiping workers from one another...
...tend to drive your car too far into the garage--say, into the bikes or the washing machine--or not far enough to clear the door, there's help in sight. Park Zone from Exeter Technologies in New York City is a $100 ultrasonic motion sensor that mounts on the garage wall. It uses green, yellow and red lights to guide drivers as surely and smoothly as if they were docking a passenger...
...music and dramas, the most entertaining, the most amusing and sometimes the most gripping thing it can show us is people sitting and talking to one another, and to us. McLuhan argued that speech is the richest form of human communication because it involves several of the senses--sight, sound, touch, etc.--and that speech on TV is the nearest equivalent yet to the face-to-face variety. Hence the ubiquitous talk show. Hence hosts with an uncanny ability to gaze into the camera and connect emotionally with viewers. And hence our feeling that we know Johnny Carson or Oprah...