Word: overlook
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With shortages of gasoline, heating fuel and other petroleum products gripping the nation, it is easy to overlook an important fact: the U.S. is still by far the world's largest oil producer. In 1972 U.S. wells pumped out 9.4 million...
Still, in choosing Saxbe, the President was forced to overlook an extraordinary record for candor displayed by the Ohio Senator, frequently at the Administration's expense. Shortly after arriving in Washington, Saxbe visited the White House and told Nixon that he had been elected to end the Viet Nam War and that "if he hung onto it, it would be his war." The Senator did not receive another White House invitation for more than four years. That was doubtless fine with John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, the President's two top advisers at the time, who were referred...
...deep and how permanent is the rift? Karl Dietrich Bracher, a respected West German political scientist, thinks it can be easily healed. "Many present commentaries seem overpessimistic and overlook reciprocal interests," he says. "A serious showdown between Europe and the U.S. seems to be a purely theoretical issue." From the other side of the Atlantic, there was a feeling that bygones ought to be bygones. "We have made our point," says one State Department official. "We have shown our anger. Now we can go on with business...
AMERICA'S low tolerance for turmoil and its self-generated alienation from politics may well cause the trend towards one-man rule to accelerate so that executive rule becomes accepted in name as well as deed. One cannot afford to overlook the possibility that the illusion of republicanism will be dispensed with and that the United States will set out on the road of dictatorship and autocracy. It is not an enviable possibility, but a real possibility nevertheless...
Lewis emphatically agrees. While some 40,000 volumes of the Yale edition have been sold (at $20 each), Lewis does not expect many scholars to read the complete set. "But," he adds, "no serious student of this period can afford to overlook this work. It has become the encyclopedia of the 18th century." It has also become, for Lewis, the culmination of a lifetime devoted to collecting...