This was part of a larger trend for GKN which during this period, under its Managing Director Raymond Brookes, was working to reduce its dependence on UK auto-maker customers at a time when the domestic industry was seen to be stumbling, in response to bewildering " Government interference and fiscal short-sightedness ", with British new car registrations in the first four months of 1969 a massive 33 % down on the corresponding period of the previous year.

:" Current evidence on LASIK for the treatment of refractive errors suggests that it is effective in selected patients with mild or moderate short-sightedness ,"

Jones often prided himself on being a generalist, something which he describes as a move away from the stubbornness and short-sightedness of ' specialists '.

His main physical characteristics are obesity ( he weighs about 14 stone, or 200 pounds, which, at a time when many people did not get enough to eat, was huge ), brought about by over-eating, and short-sightedness ( hence his nickname ' the fat owl of the Remove ', because his round glasses and short-sighted squint give him the appearance of an Owl blinking in the daylight ).

The fact that the entire New York to Boston line is now electrified shows the short-sightedness of this concept, which had been adopted by the McGinnis management to avoid the cost of modernizing the New Haven ’ s Cos Cob, Connecticut power plant.

Following the devastating famine of 1770, which was partially caused by this short-sightedness, Company officials in Calcutta better understood the importance of oversight of revenue officials.

It casts the Munich agreement, not just as Anglo-French short-sightedness or cowardice, but as a " secret " agreement that was a " a highly important phase in their policy aimed at goading the Hitlerite aggressors against the Soviet Union.

The stick was undoubtedly the cane Evans carried all his life to assist him with his short-sightedness and night blindness.

He was also found to be completely deaf in one ear and he needed glasses for severe astigmatism and short-sightedness.

This was attributed to “ materialism, apathy, short-sightedness, political interference and indifference ”.

On his day he was one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket, but his playing style was also notable for his short-sightedness and poor catching, his powerful throwing arm, his perceived profligacy with the ball and his undoubted ineptitude with the bat.

The main source of the fun of these one-page stories was the combination of Blink's bluff, no-nonsense blimpish ways and his disastrous short-sightedness.

Wild retained a sense of bitterness about the federal government's short-sightedness that thwarted the project.

:" Evidence is weaker for its effectiveness in severe short-sightedness and long-sightedness.

I will trust the American people not to mistake short-sightedness for patriotism or narrow-mindedness for love of country.

Rejected for military service in World War I because of his short-sightedness, and otherwise unemployed, Cardus briefly wrote for the socialist paper The Daily Citizen.

The party, he said, had taken over where private industry had failed, because of the " short-sightedness, malevolence, profiteering and stupidity " of the business class.

A very similar character to Colonel Blink is Mr. Magoo, who also gets himself and others in trouble due to his short-sightedness.

Politicians past and present have been accused of short-sightedness in speculating that they would.

Thus, Henri's own short-sightedness in this regard jeopardized the alliance between Legitimists ( Bourbons ) and Orleanists.

Despite his short-sightedness, Andrew joined the army as a cavalry officer in May 1901.

In the book, Manchester scathingly posits, as the title suggests, that the Middle Ages were ten centuries of technological stagnation, short-sightedness, bloodshed, feudalism, and an oppressive Church wedged between the golden ages of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

The primary writer and conceiver of the Scourge plotline as well as the Captain America storyline, Mark Gruenwald, had often expressed some disappointment in what he saw as the short-sightedness in killing so many potentially " fun " villains rather than re-imagining or improving them.

Marx himself had talked about the " materialist conception of history ", which was later referred to as " historical materialism " by Engels.

The philosophic solution that Lenin ( and Engels ) proposed was " dialectical materialism ", wherein matter is defined as " objective reality ", theoretically consistent with ( new ) developments occurred in the sciences.

Designed to put forward news from across Europe with his own Marxist interpretation of events, Marx remained one of its primary writers, accompanied by other fellow members of the Communist League who wrote for the paper, although despite their input it remained, according to Friedrich Engels, " a simple dictatorship by Marx ", who dominated the choice of content.

Marx's tombstone bears the carved message: " WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE ", the final line of The Communist Manifesto, and from the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach ( edited by Engels ): " The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways — the point however is to change it ".

Commodity fetishism provides an example of what Engels called " false consciousness ", which relates closely to the understanding of ideology.

By " ideology ", Marx and Engels meant ideas that reflect the interests of a particular class at a particular time in history, but which contemporaries see as universal and eternal.

An example of a ternary relation ( i. e., between three individuals ) is: " X < tt > was-introduced-to </ tt > Y < tt > by </ tt > Z ", where ( X, Y, Z ) is a 3-tuple of persons ; for example, " Beatrice Wood was introduced to Henri-Pierre Roché by Marcel Duchamp " is true, while " Karl Marx was introduced to Friedrich Engels by Queen Victoria " is false.

Marx and Engels held the view that the consciousness of those who earn a wage or salary ( the " working class " in the broadest Marxist sense ) would be moulded by their " conditions " of " wage-slavery ", leading to a tendency to seek their freedom or " emancipation " by overthrowing ownership of the means of production by capitalists, and consequently, overthrowing the state that upheld this economic order.

In two major essays, On contradiction and " On the correct handling of contradictions among the people ", he adopts the positivist-empiricist idea ( shared by Engels ) that contradiction is present in matter itself ( and thus, also in the ideas of the brain ).

While in Manchester, Engels wrote his first economic work called " Outline of a Critique of Political Economy ", written between October and November 1843.

In the book, Engels gave way to his views on the " grim future of capitalism and the industrial age ", describing in detail, street after street, the total squalor in which the working people lived.

Starting with an article called " The Magyar Struggle ", written on January 8, 1849, Frederick Engels, himself, began a series of reports on the Revolution and War for Independence of the newly founded Hungarian Republic.

Engels is commonly known as a " ruthless party tactician ", " brutal ideologue ", and " master tactician " when it came to purging rivals in political organizations.

However, another strand of Engels ’ s personality was one of a " gregarious ", " bighearted ", and " jovial man of outsize appetites ", who was referred to by his son-in-law as " the great beheader of champagne bottles.

In " On Authority ", Engels also wrote of democratic workplaces that " particular questions arise in each room and at every moment concerning the mode of production, distribution of material, etc., which must be settled by decision of a delegate placed at the head of each branch of labour or, if possible, by a majority vote.

Marx and Engels formulated theories regarding the practical way of achieving and running a socialist system, which they saw as only being achieved by those who produce the wealth in society, the toilers, workers or " proletariat ", gaining common ownership of their workplaces, the means of producing wealth.

According to Marx and Engels, once a socialist society had been ushered in, the state would begin to " wither away ", and humanity would be in control of its own destiny for the first time.

For Engels, this was what the dictatorship of the proletariat looked like ( as opposed to the " dictatorship of the bourgeoisie ", which was capitalism ).

Engels goes on to state: " In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy ; and at best an evil inherited by the proletariat after its victorious struggle for class supremacy ", and a new generation of socialists, " reared in new and free social conditions, will be able to throw the entire lumber of the state on the scrap-heap ".

Fredrick Engels argued that the state under socialism is not a " government of people, but the administration of things ", and thus would not be a state in the traditional sense of the term.