Perhaps this does indicate a certain myopia on the part of the American foreign-policy establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
To add insult to injury, my myopia is such that the lenses weighed about a pound apiece, each resembling a portal on a submarine. From Wordnik.com. [my eyes have seen the glory of ... okay, not much, really] Reference
There is a danger that short-term myopia may end-up self defeating in the long-term as immediate gains will mask more important time-bombs. From Wordnik.com. [Raj Nallari: Reflections on Development Economics After the Crisis] Reference
We’ve watched short-term myopia destroy Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [Don McNay: The Lottery Question] Reference
"Short sight," known as myopia, is one of the commonest defects of vision. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Your myopia is showing. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball] Reference
Your myopia is startling, but not unpredictable. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox News Devastated Over Arrest Of ACORN Pimp, Says The Story Probably Needs ‘A Lot Of Context’] Reference
Does "myopia" mean anything to you? by Freedomfighter on December 7, 2009 - 11: 50pm. From Wordnik.com. [The White House's agenda woes: Broadcast standards, Internet age] Reference
But perhaps myopia is operating here as well. From Wordnik.com. [What Does College Teach?] Reference
Chinese officials were displaying "myopia" by being "unwilling" to use their influence as. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
The Street, in a kind of myopia which it often mistakes for wisdom, needs to see the bigger picture on this. From Wordnik.com. [Amazon Still On Track] Reference
The Deputy PM claimed this 'myopia' was a generational problem in which people had stopped looking ahead to the future. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
This suggests myopia, which is a bit troubling. From Wordnik.com. [Stat Fight, Con't, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
"myopia" in failing to persuade North Korea to change its behavior. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
We, too, are forced into a kind of myopia in which fragments of common sense are substituted for issues.”. From Wordnik.com. [Menachem Kaiser: How DFW Got Me a C+] Reference
Stock found the same lacunae in eight cases of myopia. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
Here, she explains how educational myopia weakens our democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Poor education, poor democracy] Reference
Doctors diagnosed McCord with severe myopia and advanced cataracts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2007] Reference
Ken Lay's failing was not simply his myopia or cupidity or incompetence. From Wordnik.com. [On Leadership: BP, Dell, Wall Street -- where have the corporate heroes gone?] Reference
Concave lenses are used to correct myopia, and they must be worn all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
KURTZ: But that would seem to suggest to certain myopia on the part of the media. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2002] Reference
But his description of the problems of "contemporary political myopia" is spot on. From Wordnik.com. [Politics blog live - Thursday 9 September] Reference
Normally, the marketplace is supposed to provide correctives to this kind of myopia. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
And the myopia imposed by your presence in a military situation is frustrating for me. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2003] Reference
Personal myopia, political cowardice, fiscal fantasy and journalistic neglect are all at work. From Wordnik.com. [You Can’t Take it with You] Reference
It was certainly a factor in the life of Lafcadio Hearn, for he was once named the poet of myopia. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Creeks, a tribe which has been semi-civilized for many years, myopia to be the prevailing visual defect. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
Watergate may yet be his monument, and it is evidence of a moral myopia that afflicted him all his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
In his quiet moments Sir Joseph does not rebuke himself more than he regrets the moral myopia of other people. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
A desk that is too high may easily be the indirect agent for causing scoliosis, producing myopia or astigmatism. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
The new procedure is not practical when nearsightedness is still progressing -- and it doesn't work for extreme myopia yet. From Wordnik.com. [A Light For Poor Eyes] Reference
First attempted in Japan and refined in the Soviet Union during the 1970s, RK also corrects myopia by flattening the cornea. From Wordnik.com. [A Light For Poor Eyes] Reference
Three articles from the Wall Street Journal show the strange myopia of businesses and business groups when it comes to politics. From Wordnik.com. [Big Biz Still For GOP] Reference
Nobody has gone blind from PRK, but it does have potential drawbacks, including a recurrence of myopia, swelling and tissue damage. From Wordnik.com. [A Light For Poor Eyes] Reference
Glasses and contact lenses correct myopia by bending or refracting the light entering the eye so that it strikes the retina precisely. From Wordnik.com. [A Light For Poor Eyes] Reference
Heller then selectively reprints part of my response, without the link, and writes: "It takes a special kind of myopia to believe that. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
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