Appointments of independent fiduciaries by courts have often amounted to invitations to steal and the judges overseeing these arrangements have been blind to skimming happening right under their noses.
In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ms Peleg describes filming 21 interviews with people who have been blind since birth, and 30 interviews with normal-sighted people, all of whom were genetically related to her blind subjects.
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When I talk about it now, I wonder how I could have been so blind.
First, civilization is collapsing around him as most humans have been turned blind after watching an alien meteor shower.
Until now, leaders have been able to turn a blind eye to this problem, as new antibiotics have always emerged to replace older, increasingly ineffective ones.
Any investments I have over the last eight years have been managed by a blind trust.
Would that have been a problem with blind trust rules and working in government versus the private sector?
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As long as things do not go too far, UNTAET and others have been willing to turn a blind eye.
Western buyers have been accused of turning a blind eye in the past, because of their interest in holding prices down.
But following the Robinson row, Labour conceded that cash donated by the former minister to general party funds might have been passed on to the blind trust.
He says that most of his assets, including a television channel and the biggest stake in Chile's national airline, have either been placed in a blind trust or, if he wins, will be sold before he takes office.
Instead, they have concentrated on fighting insurgents, and have often been accused of turning a blind eye to the poppy fields.
Regrettably, Iran is not responding to the many constructive proposals that have been made and we cannot turn a blind eye to this.
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Disney 's ( DIS - news - people )The Proposal and Warner Bros' The Blind Side, have both been huge hits.
And though Collective Soul have often been lumped together with such faceless post-grunge bands as Seven Mary Three, Third Eye Blind and Matchbox 20, the reviews for "Dosage" have been largely positive.
Since 2010, there have been 13 deaths across the UK linked to blind cords.
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and Mr Boon have been working to rebuild Wag's confidence.
As well a number of deaths linked to blind cords, there have also been many other instances of near misses where parents have managed to extricate children who became entangled.
In Argentina, two senior officers in the notorious Buenos Aires provincial force have been charged with taking bribes to turn a blind eye to the kidnapping of Axel Blumberg, a student whose murder in March triggered the protest marches.
"Up until now, patent donations have been a cash cow because the IRS turned an inadvertent blind eye, " says David Martin , chief executive of M-CAM , the Virginia-based company the IRS hired to help detect abusive tax strategies relating to patents.
There have been many advances in technology over the last 50 years making the life of a blind person today very different.
Had the two arms of the study not been carried out in parallel, future researchers might have travelled up an expensive and time-consuming blind alley.
There have been allegations that a large number of illegal buildings have been built in and around Mumbai by unscrupulous builders who bribe police and local administration officials to turn a blind eye to poor safety standards, our correspondent adds.
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This has many in Washington wondering if the Mexican governments will turn a blind eye to drug gangs so long as they act discreetly, as previous PRI administrations have been suspected of doing during their 71 years in power.
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In other words, defense lawyers that have been advising their plan sponsor clients for decades at inflated hourly rates, amounting to millions annually, who were blind to abuses their clients are now being sued over, are good guys.
In fact, if I had been blind folded and asked to guess where I had been taken to lunch, my likely response would have been a buffet-style restaurant, rather than London's St Bartholomew's Hospital.
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