Sentences with phrase «blind side]»

(O'Connell describes the blind bidding, apparently without irony, as Tesla's «attempt to be forthright and transparent.»)

Single filers who are blind or over 65 are eligible for a $ 1,600 additional standard deduction, on top of the $ 12,000 they get from the new tax law.

Blind Writing: This can be used for just about any type of issue, not just writer's block.

A car is creeping up in your blind spot.

Another study of VR's empathetic powers by Stanford University's Jeremy Bailenson showed that participants were twice as willing to help a color - blind person when they experienced seeing the world through reduced pigment vision.

Why she's awesome: Nita is co-owner of the Mumbai Indians cricket team and is actively involved in fundraising for education, disaster relief, and people who are blind.

Often people are blind to their own abilities or potential, and good leaders not only recognize these latent strengths, they help develop them.

In an act of blind devotion, the stocky young shopper frantically loads 20 yellow cartons — the supermarket's entire shelved inventory — into his shopping cart.

The legislation also leaves intact the additional standard deduction for filers who are 65 and over or blind, allowing them to claim an additional $ 1,300 when they file their 2018 taxes.

Minutes after Morneau strode out of the meeting — ignoring shouted questions about why he hasn't put his own extensive business holdings in a blind trust — Long held forth on what he clearly felt was his moment to savour.

I might occasionally be better served by leaping before I look, though, if only because blind leaps can often be fun leaps.

A.J. Kohn of Blind Five - Year - Old has a number of neat stats to seek out, many based on the best day to tweet.

The FDA requested additional research, so Sprout conducted a series of double - blind, placebo - controlled trials among 2,400 premenopausal women with HSDD.

After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high - tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille.

A follow - up study found men weren't as color blind when it came to bargain shopping for something they really wanted.

He plans to use it to build a better prototype of the printer and test it with more groups for the blind.

But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.

«Tech companies are blind to this,» says Wu, who is also the co-founder of Giant Spacekat, a company that makes games with female protagonists.

Here's one from the final frontier: a device called the eSight 3 can help legally blind people see with the help of a liquid lens, optical prisms, and a high resolution display.

Rhoades: Well, let's assume your blind spot usually works for you.

That means it could be blind to the innovation happening at the key end point that, to continue to grow into the world's largest people connector, Facebook must dominate.

«I remember putting them on and looking up and I saw my husband who I'd been married to for eight years and had never seen before,» one blind patient who uses the eSight 3 told CNET.

When running the last five miles of an ironman while your legs are cramping so badly that you can see the muscles knotting in your legs between each step, or diving a 3,000 - foot shelf, at night and in the dark, while someone accidentally kicks off your mask leaving you temporarily blind, getting into and staying in your flow state is not just helpful, it can be lifesaving.

Beyond saving lives, consider the money saved (traffic accidents cause $ 500 billion in economic damage worldwide each year), the benefits to cities (parking lots become green spaces), the increases in productivity (commuters can work in transit; truckers can sleep without pulling over), and improvements in accessibility (the elderly, blind, and disabled get affordable robot chauffeurs!).

But while the degree may provide a gender - blind boost, the fact that the pay differential grows as female alumnae rise up the ranks is clear evidence that an MBA is not enough to blunt the factors that drive the gap.

We blind ourselves to this much bigger proportion of the population — unintentionally — because they never accomplished something worth sensationalizing.

Turning a blind eye to the actions of industry rivals is a great way to be caught off guard.

In one closely watched blind shootout last year that was judged by a group of prominent industry figures, including Francis Ford Coppola, a Red camera (and other professional models) ranked behind a $ 900 video camera.

Imagine a woman showing up for a blind date and learning that the person she's going to meet has already ordered her favorite dish and asked the band to play her five favorite songs.

They pointed to Weinstein's recent purchase of the movie rights to a book Bloom published, and they suggested Bloom seems to have a blind spot for Hollywood executives.

While Amazon isn't the only e-book vendor option for blind people, it has a majority share of the U.S. e-book market and a proprietary file format, according to the Journal.

A Star Trek - like visor can help the legally blind see.

«How pairing a Bluetooth speaker or headset with this device works will definitely impact how successfully blind people can use it, and that's one of the implementation factors we will carefully review,» Danielsen told Fortune.

Here are some tips to help you avoid the blunders of blind traffic generation.

As good as online marketing is at targeting customers, it does have a blind spot.

But what's most interesting is the device's features for the blind.

President Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton, and Obama, all used «blind trusts» to manage assets, he says.

As long as they stayed in the good graces of the party elite and could plausibly portray their investments as being in the national interest, regulators mostly turned a blind eye to who owned what, what they were buying and how they were funding their expansion.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals later affirmed that decision, ruling UPS had established a «pregnancy - blind policy.»

Yet Branson is the villain here, the modern - day robber baron putting lives at risk in the blind pursuit if his profit, critics say.

In blind taste tests, people generally preferred the new recipe compared to the old.

He also says that high standards in one area don't automatically translate to high standards in another — it's important for people to discover their «blind spots.»

Other times we conduct surveys at people's homes, evaluating our samples blind.

Hubris has made him blind to the perils of space travel, made him recklessly ignore risks and fail to understand all the issues involved.

Now, weeks later, the people around here still don't get how blind they were.

Finally, the concept was original; up to this point, no other advertising campaign had been so bold to attempt such a blind experiment.

This is because excessive optimism (for example, a «we can do anything» mindset) comes across as blind to the inevitable challenges or ambiguity that a team may face along the course of a project.

«You can consider yourself a person of high standards in general and still have debilitating blind spots.»

You may become irrationally optimistic about what the future holds, so much that you turn a blind eye to portending challenges.

Once the evaluation process begins, «blind» hiring tactics can eliminate potential biases.