Charlotte Higgins is right to highlight the fact that building a new concert hall in London is shortsighted unless the issue of music education and access to the arts is addressed at the same time (Simon Rattle is waving his baton at the wrong cause, 23 February).
However, United's decision to haul Mr Zaman into court now looks spectacularly shortsighted.
The two firms may not see exactly eye-to-eye on how this will all play out, but neither can be accused of being shortsighted.
In practice, many of the local trusts that dish the money out do not pay for any cycles at all.Jonathan Grant, the head of the Cambridge branch of the Rand Corporation (an American think-tank), believes this is shortsighted.
However, it is shortsighted of you to dismiss as "irrelevant" both the public consultation process and the use of preferred technologies when drawing up carbon-offset standards.
But treating mobile phones as a cash cow is shortsighted, says Gabriel Solomon of the GSMA, because mobile-specific taxes reduce demand.
Recent moaning that the American-led surge in Afghanistan may drive militants over the border suggests that at best many are loth to help their neighbour.How shortsighted.
Unsurprisingly the owners of 110 Greenwich believe this is shortsighted.
George, shortsighted as well as sceptical, saw more.These are slightly strained paradoxes, but behind them is something soberingly familiar: "institutional racism", of course, but also the fragility of the law in the face of unblushing authority.
Still, Israel's project in the West Bank is shortsighted and dangerous.
But even allowing for that, the patent controller is being shortsighted.
