They are the ones who turned blind eyes to the concoction of credit and who validated the new paradigm of leveraging inflated assets as a way to spend, rather than saving the old-fashioned way.

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Ms Hodges is registered blind with nystagmus, which causes involuntary movement of the eyes.

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Barbara McLaughlan, eye health consultant for the Royal National Institute of the Blind, said the research appeared to confirm that the benefits of a healthy lifestyle extended to the eyes.

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They had made chewing motions with their mouths and produced blissful sounds, sometimes half opening eyes blind with sleep and then closing them again, stirring a little, and moaning because of the sweetness of their own existence.

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