Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many companies, dazzled by the glamour of automation, have leaped into it before looking at costs or determining whether they really need to automate. "Some managements," says Automation Expert John Diebold, president of John Diebold & Associates, "are so eager to buy the hardware that they will unconsciously overlook some of their cost figures to prove they need one." They do not realize that preparing for and converting to automation can cost as much as the computer itself. Before leasing a brain at $16,000 a month, Republic National Bank of Dallas had to send ten employees to school...
...stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
Equally important, however, is the academic personality. Scholars are practically the only Americans who evaluate people in terms of what they have done, not what they are. More than any other profession scholars overlook birth, breeding and personal idiosyncracies--if the individual delivers the goods. And more than most other groups the scholars still supports the puritanical view that work is valuable for its own sake, regarding such evidences of time consumed as footnotes and bibliographies as significant virtues...
...overlook the Rev. Martin Luther King of Montgomery, Ala. Think about...
Doty attacked the "popular notion" that the Russian challenge exists only in science and material progress. "While watching our comparative production curves," he noted, "we tend to overlook certain problems in education, for instance." A million Russians speak English, he said, and a "dynamic concern for learning English penetrates much of the society...