Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told them at the beginning of the year to forget about last season. Forget about the shootout victory over Yale in the first round. Forget about the 2-1 victory over Boston University in the second round. Forget about the 2-0 triumph over Hartwick in the quarterfinals...
...would deny that Stephen Biko's story is an important one. No one would deny that apartheid's opponents need all the support they can get. No one would deny that the bottom line, so far as Universal Pictures is concerned, is making a few million bucks. The critics forget that panning a movie about Biko is not equivalent to supporting apartheid. It's just an acknowledgement that another wealthy company has made another lousy movie about something genuinely important...
...Americans manage to forget for so many years that downtowns are invigorating and old cities grand? That the dignity and Gemutlichkeit of 18th century buildings and 19th century streets are incomparable? That the physical past is worth preserving? Did a majority of Americans in 1970 actually prefer Century City to San Francisco? Were people fetched by the shiny new discord of Houston suburbs more than by shabby, genteel New Orleans, by the glass and steel of downtown Minneapolis more than by the brick and stone of downtown St. Paul...
...negotiations to save this company. We'd love nothing more than to invite union leaders in, exchange Sheaffer pens, sign contracts and have a nice deal. The world just doesn't allow that. I haven't found anybody else who writes the paychecks at Eastern. That's something people forget. There aren't a lot of jobs going looking for homes in South Florida...
...People in America were willing to work much harder than in Britain," Goldsmith says, rubbing a lemon-size piece of amber as he paces up and down in an almost bare penthouse office, which overlooks the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. "Most people forget that America's strength is not its culture but its ideology, and that ideology is freedom...