Word: shortsightedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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European leaders, stubborn and shortsighted though many of them may be, believe that the U.S. does not know what it is really asking when it presses for integration. They argue correctly that integration-even in easy stages-would cause a serious crisis in Western Europe before it could start doing...
The government corporation had plenty of excuses. First there were heavy rains, then a severe drought. The bush in the Kongwa district had "proved unduly obstinate"; it took eight hours to clear one acre instead of the estimated two. Kongwa soil hardens until it becomes "like a tennis court." Tractors...
Charlie Wilson knew that the power industry had "made mistakes, it has been shortsighted . . ." But he thought it had also done a bang-up job - though it would have to do a still better one. To meet the increasing demands for power, he said, the industry should spend $1 billion...
And arms aid now would be a serious shock to direct Russian-American relations, which seem to be picking up slightly. Russia could probably find herself psychologically able to deal with a billion-and-a-half dollars worth of war material when it was controlled by one country 3000 miles...
The opposition of the Legion to the Conference was inevitable and in keeping with its tradition of shortsighted reaction; the action of the State Department, if not expected, was not a great shock; but the alliance of Schlesinger with the bogus A.I.F. was certainly a surprise in his own community...