Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptics overlook Harvard's first-place ECAC reign. They forget that Harvard is ranked fifth in the nation. Instead, these skeptics argue about the team's youth. What about the fact that a freshman goalie has played in every minute of the season due to senior John Devin's injury? Or that freshmen compose one half of Harvard's first two lines? How will these first-year starters respond to a St. Lawrence or a Colgate...
...agreed that we did not have a drinking problem. Everything in our increasingly narrow world, though, was a problem that required drinking: the wife, the kids, the boss, the government. In dingy watering holes from which everyone with a healthy life to lead had gone home, we conspired to overlook the obvious, that our bodily cells were addicted, and our minds were along for the ride...
...banal, occasionally shows signs of getting out of hand. "People are just beginning to talk about ' '50s classics' now, which is a term that embraces some really appalling ticky-tack," says the British-born architectural historian Reyner Banham, who lives in California. "There is a tendency to overlook the aesthetic quality of a building and just keep it because it is old," says Robert Winter, a cultural historian at Occidental College in Los Angeles. "Too often the reason for declaring something ((a historic landmark)) is sentimental." Sentiment is inadmissible? Isn't the new feeling for preservation and for cities inherently...
...behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts that besmirches their view of a nearby hillside...
...remaining candidates suffer from a common problem: with the exception of Jesse Jackson, they are still not well known nationally. Only Jackson has developed a large body of committed supporters willing to overlook errors and discount or ignore unfavorable publicity. The others remain vulnerable to being blown away by the first puff of bad news, as happened to Hart and Biden, and could yet occur to Dukakis. The threat is all the greater for a related reason: without large issues to distinguish the candidates, media coverage has tended to focus on personality and character, tricky subjects for campaigns whose first...