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- noun pathology
myopia
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- noun a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
- noun (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
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Examples
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To me, their shortsightedness is the all-time best example of "not-invented-here" syndrome: Because the other guy thought of it, the conservatives killed a whole range of innovative energy ideas that badly needed government seed money and tax breaks to get off the ground.
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Your shortsightedness is alarming ... please tell us you're not really that out of touch?
Hagel laughs off - but won't rule out - joining an Obama ticket 2008
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All we can do to counter the networks’ shortsightedness is to continue supporting the programs we love, write a few angry columns and letters, and hope that somebody gets it before their business model runs them into the ground.
Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: A moment of silence for 'Southland' | EW.com 2009
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However he attributed it to a special kind of shortsightedness that wore off by about 20.
How on earth did they do it? a stitch in time 2009
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I think this is precisely the kind of shortsightedness that has led to the mess American science is in now.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Mariposa was laid out there was none of that shortsightedness which is seen in the cramped dimensions of Wall Street and Piccadilly.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock 1906
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What I am trying to say is that I finally understand, in an emotional sense, not just in an intellectual one, why the supposed "shortsightedness" of those with limited resources can be economically rational.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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Other than his shortsightedness, corrected by lenses, and a little bout with acne as a teenager, we did not have much to go on.
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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Milt tells why it was never released as a single, due to the shortsightedness of an RCA exec.
Jay Weston: Legendary Music Man Milt Okun -- Belafonte to John Denver to Placido Jay Weston 2011
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Milt tells why it was never released as a single, due to the shortsightedness of an RCA exec.
Jay Weston: Legendary Music Man Milt Okun -- Belafonte to John Denver to Placido Jay Weston 2011
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