Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan is willing to overlook these petty indulgences. His opposition to the trade bill hinges on only one provision: a requirement that companies warn employees 60 days before closing a plant...
...League will never regain national prominence in major sports. Too many schools willing to dish out scholarships and occasionally overlook a fistful of D's on an athlete's report card are out there, ready to pounce on a top-notch athlete. The Ivy League will continue to attract the top-notch student-athlete. A student first, an athlete second is the great motto of Ivy League athletics...
...however, it may be too late for change. Nixon is already listened to by many people. His party has already forgiven him for the crimes he committed against the nation. The President has already accepted him as an expert on public policy. But if we are already willing to overlook Nixon's manipulations, lies and utter disrespect for the highest office and laws of the land, then the damage he did to the ideals of the nation is irreversible...
...upon closer examination, both my statements and Kirkland's stereotype quandary can be clarified. In the same way that there is an annoying University-wide tendency to identify, unfairly, yet continually, Kirkland's residents as athletes before students, there is an exasperating Kirkland-wide (and University-wide) inclination to overlook, unjustly, though consistently, burning issues of intolerable discrimination that underlie Kirkland's single-faceted reputation...
...focus of the anger was the difficulty of ousting Panama's arrogant military leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. attorneys in Tampa and Miami last month had announced indictments of Noriega for drug trafficking and money laundering. The charges made it impossible for the Reagan Administration to continue to overlook Noriega's sinister activities...