Yet it is here, on home ground, that Mr Shevardnadze has so far shown something of a blind spot.
There are also areas where even economists seem to develop something of a blind spot on the point, health care being one of the more obvious such.
Yet there is something of a blind spot among marketers and HR who hold to the belief that they should communicate their message in the language and format that tradition has handed down.
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If a truck looms out of the blind spot during a high-speed freeway merge, for example, a driver would be better off if his phone's ringer was disabled at that moment, he says.
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The side-view mirrors on most cars are flat, and while they give drivers an accurate sense of the distance of cars behind them, they have a narrow field of view, leaving a space behind the vehicle -- the blind spot -- that a driver can't see.
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Stopping in the middle of a trail or in a blind spot.
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This disparity can be explained by the language used by a number of commentators, many of who used sarcasm, which is famously a blind-spot for text analytic tools.
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When a wired car is in the blind spot of one of GM's test Cadillacs, an icon of a car lights up in the side mirror.
But I think, you know, "SNL" has had a blind spot on the issue of racial comedy and comedians for years.
In a blind test of voices, the system was able to spot those with Parkinson's with an accuracy of 86%.
As a leader, when you are denied the leadership of your team, you are denied your own leadership, and that is a blind spot that most leaders must overcome, and I work on overcoming this challenge every day.
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"The whole landscape is full of prehistoric monuments and it is extraordinary in a way that this has been such a blind spot for so long archaeologically, " he said.
Blind-spot warning systems alert a driver to the otherwise unseen presence of other cars to the side and rear of the vehicle on the highway, and some do the same for cross traffic when backing out of a garage or parking space.
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