You say in your book that shareholders are mostly "nearsighted". From Wordnik.com. [John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 9: Tim Sanders on Greening U.S. Workplaces] Reference
What special care should nearsighted children take?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The nearsighted clerk lost his smile, turned, and ran. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The nearsighted subjects pay for the procedure themselves. From Wordnik.com. [A Light For Poor Eyes] Reference
New options to improve vision for people who are nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2004] Reference
The number of nearsighted Americans is increasing dramatically. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
Those nearsighted eyes returned to me, the light of wonder in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
He was a gray-bearded man with handsome features and nearsighted eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
Taunts at the unusual name, and the nearsighted, bookish boy who bore it. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
"He's nearsighted," Claire said, feeling almost light-headed with relief. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
Then the nearsighted father put out his hand toward Peter's little sister. From Wordnik.com. [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference
And he's terribly nearsighted, but he refuses to wear his glasses in public. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2002] Reference
SANDERS: It's much harder to be responsible when shareholders are nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 9: Tim Sanders on Greening U.S. Workplaces] Reference
He was doing his Al Capone, but it was coming out as a nearsighted Lou Costello. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing in the Dark]
She still thought that I was impossible, I was so tall and thin and nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He stuck his eye-glasses over his hook-nose, and stooped down, being nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
I'm going to DEMAND to take another vision test to PROVE that I'm not nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
And you see, being nearsighted didn't make any difference in dancing and swimming. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
When he did that, I could never be sure whether he was glaring or just nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
A nearsighted person is one who cannot see objects unless they are close to the eye. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
Many sites even make it simple for nearsighted seniors to increase screen font size. From Wordnik.com. [Netting Friends Online] Reference
But even though he looks like a nearsighted gnome, Valentín is the eternal optimist. From Wordnik.com. [Devil Spawn Is a Yawn] Reference
And she was nearsighted, so she always had to wear glasses; hers had rectangular lenses. From Wordnik.com. [calling on dragons]
My nearsighted friends opt for throw-away contacts and think the usual lenses are tedious. From Wordnik.com. [Stop The Clock] Reference
He was very nearsighted and wore a golden pince-nez that he had to wipe off at every moment. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
The duenna looked swarthily formidable, the housekeeper meek, and the secretary nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
If the trend persists, researchers say, some 700 million Chinese will be nearsighted by 2045. From Wordnik.com. [LensCrafters Focuses on China] Reference
Flat-footed as well as nearsighted, he had little interest in sports, and he read voraciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
I gave my character my height, my lipstick, the fact that I'm nearsighted and my neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [A Korean Voice] Reference
If current trends persist, researchers say some 700 million Chinese will be nearsighted by 2045. From Wordnik.com. [Turmoil in Pakistan] Reference
How many entities, separate and distinct from ourselves, have been mistaken in nearsighted folly?. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Believer, Beware "Gets" The Funny (And Poignant) Side of Religion] Reference
She spends all of her time scuttling like a nearsighted crab from one domestic disaster to another. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
It caused his eyesight to go from nearsighted to farsighted, and he could no longer drive at night. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas DeLorenzo: UK versus US Systems -- How Universal Health Care Works in the UK] Reference
In part, it is a problem of nearsighted management that encourages profits at the expense of quality. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Some nearsighted people find that as they age, their reading vision is clear with no correction at all. From Wordnik.com. [Becoming a Squinter Nation] Reference
I'm just as nearsighted with food, never taking home my leftovers because I happen to be full at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Scrawls From My Blue Period] Reference
In this, they proved themselves to be the proper heirs of their former masters: murderous, suborned, Byzantine and nearsighted. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
The nerves of their eyes, wearied by constant nearsighted peering at the snow, began to jump so that vision became untrustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
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