Word: shortsightedness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Financial pressures have led many developing nations to continue shortsighted policies that squander natural resources. In Brazil the appointment by President Fernando Collor de Mello of outspoken conservationist Jose Lutzenberger as Secretary of the Environment raised hopes that the burning of the Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists...
A. You're touching on a crucial national problem, which is, What kind of a society do we demand to have? To place the responsibility for that on the health-science community is, I would say, unfair. The responsibility for that judgment rests with the entire country's priorities. Why...
The billion-dollar water project would have turned Cheesman Canyon into a vast man-made lake, covering an area between two forks of the South Platte River known to outdoorsmen as the "St. Peter's Basilica of trout fishing." The EPA decided to block the dam because it would destroy...
Apparently only then did many Americans begin to believe their own President. That in itself is a disturbing commentary on Bush's standing. His considerable achievements as a world statesman have made his performance on the home front, particularly his erratic, shortsighted mismanagement of the economy, seem all the worse...
But the pain-killer wears off, the patient wakes. It is not morning in America anymore but a somewhat frayed and bloodshot season. American politics (shortsighted, vicious, stupid) plunges on. The government cannot pay its bills and goes on putting up the great-grandchildren as collateral. Congress and the President...