Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, even as events offer great promise, they simultaneously remind us of a past we would rather overlook. The moments of shocking history--which must be confronted--simply prove again the intractable nature of opposing ideologies and economic systems...
...been successful in your own company abroad, you can run a U.S. firm the same way just because you have acquired the company," says Michel Besson, the French chief executive of CertainTeed, a maker of building materials based in Valley Forge, Pa. "You tend to underestimate their strengths and overlook your own weaknesses." An executive of a West German- owned U.S. subsidiary recalls a dramatic showdown: "Their people would come here and put down our people, our work ethics. I had a little problem with that. I finally slammed my door shut and told my German counterpart that I didn...
...that the losses in just one HUD program, the Federal Housing Administration, totaled $4.2 billion -- five - times the amount the Reagan Administration had conceded. That bill lands on top of the $300 billion or so needed to rescue the savings and loan industry -- another problem that Washington chose to overlook while the losses mounted...
...facts has ruined many a good news story" (attributed to Roy Howard). Chief Justice Warren Burger may have made a mistake in attributing the statement to Howard, but there's no mistaking the element of truth in the notion--an element that Boller and George seem to overlook. They've checked out their quotes in a scholarly way, but somehow they lose the pizazz of the lines as they go along...
Somehow, a lifetime ban will not make fans and writers forget Rose, the game's record-holder for most career hits. It's kind of hard to overlook what Rose accomplished as a player. Interesting to see whether he eventually makes the Hall of Fame. If Rose does, then so must "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Orlando Cepeda and Ferguson Jenkins, just to name a few greats whom baseball has forgotten...