Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overriding Concern. Israel is prepared to give up only the bulge as an initial step. "Quneitra is possible," says an Israeli negotiator, "but not in the first stage. First we want to establish Syrian intentions." Israel's overriding concern, of course, is that the Golan Heights overlook vast reaches of northern Israeli territory. In the past, Syrian gunners have periodically raked Israeli kibbutzim with artillery stationed on the strategic heights. For that reason, Israel has established new settlements on the Golan -one more was dedicated last week-as a symbol of its determination to continue to occupy the territory...
...early sign was the cons' new awareness of their legal rights. Courts had long kept hands off prisons on the theory that wardens and guards needed virtually unfettered freedom to control convict populations. But judges too had experienced their own consciousness raising and could no longer overlook outright brutality. If the right not to be barbarously treated was recognized, could other rights be far behind? The Black Muslims scored a major victory when they persuaded federal courts in 1961 to recognize their right to bring suit protecting their religion. Other legal challenges followed. In a series of state...
Tufts, MIT and Brandeis will be scrounging around for any crumbs that Harvard, Northeastern, or B.C. might happen to overlook, while Boston University will make its usual six-point bid for spring supremacy...
...much of a hurry to get them on film, to make the full balanced works of the European masters. But through it all there is a sense of such vitality and interest, a feeling of place and mood, an atmosphere of light and detail, that one can overlook so much of defect in the spirit of the whole...
...examine only the similarities between the marketing of ideas and products is to overlook the very important differences between these two acts, i.e., the empirical observation that a free press, with all its faults, has been able to help us monitor our Government and help prevent it from becoming a totally self-serving institution...