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Magrath says the electorate is short-sighted in focusing exclusively on elementary and secondary schools to the detriment of higher education issues, which in the end have a great long-term significance.
A windy presenter said that the President, like the hickory cane, was unbending, un yielding and several other ways of saying "stiff." Coolidge, the soul of taciturnity, took the cane, sighted down the shaft, said "Ash," and sat down.) Lyle gives the impression that renovating the house made his nose...
Despite the rash of mishaps and irritations, the scientist-astronauts seemed pleased with the gleaming celestial laboratory. Said Lichtenberg, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T.: "It's just an amazing vehicle. Spacelab lives up to all its expectations." In one experiment involving a pallet instrument called a spectrophotometer, the scientists...
As a student of Afro-American history I find Mr. Conway's short-sighted patemalism disturbingly reminiscent of that of many Northern whites of the early nineteenth century. Claiming to represent the interests of Black people, these men fought the abolition of slavery because they felt that the resulting freedmen...
"I don't understand why people are so short sighted or so ignorant that they vote for only one candidate, or may be two," Geraidin said "They're not using the system."