Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Einstein could never accept that the universe was at its heart a cosmic crapshoot, so that today his papers on unified field theory seem hopelessly archaic. But the puzzle they tried to solve is utterly fundamental. In simply recognizing the problem, Einstein was so daringly far-sighted that only now...
It is short-sighted to link something as important as paying our UN dues to family planning policy. Clinton would be wrong to sign this agreement because the two issues should be kept separate. UN dues have no affect on our funding of family planning organizations abroad.
"It's a poor and short-sighted institutional choice," says Lars Noah '86, an associate professor at the University of Florida professor, who is an expert in tort law and food and drug law. "As a result, the information [the deans] get from their proctors may dry up."
Claims that the council is expendable are short-sighted and irresponsible. Allowing the voice of the majority to be completely lost in a sea of special interests is not how a democracy is supposed to work. Is the council broken? Yes, and it has been for years. Let's fix...
John Major, the former British Prime Minister, cautioned against short-sighted geopolitics in his Wednesday night speech to the ARCO Forum.