Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While there was no stated policy to overlook individual smokers, a police officer pointed out that law enforcement officials were greatly outnumbered...
...parked in a lot beside two other cars, both of which had Utah plates, and followed a path to a posted overlook. I had been here before, as a devout 14-year-old on a church-led bus tour. Now, a more skeptical adult, I wanted to follow the Mormon trail again, traveling (in the order of settlement) from Missouri, Joseph Smith's abortive Zion, back east to Nauvoo, Ill., the first true Mormon city, then west along the route of exile to Salt Lake City, Utah. Preserving and highlighting the past is a Mormon priority--witness the re-enactment...
...movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City Zoo, which houses both meerkats and lions in its "Lion Overlook." At the San Diego Wild Animal Park's new "Heart of Africa" exhibit, guests can participate in field experiments and get up close and personal with some animals. Hurry! Disney's next hit may be Hercules, and no zoos have winged horses...
...biggest obstacles has been technologists' naivete about the character of human thought, their tendency to confuse thinking with analytical problem solving. They forget that when you look out the window and let your mind wander, or fall asleep and dream, you are also thinking. They tend to overlook something that such mind-obsessed poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge understood two centuries ago: that thought is largely a process of stringing memories together, and that memories are often linked by emotion. No computer can achieve artificial thought without achieving artificial emotion too. But even in that arcane field, some progress...
LONDON: Facing the biggest Tory defeat since the fall of Winston Churchill in 1945, Prime Minister John Major pleaded with voters Wednesday to give the Conservatives another chance. "Eighteen years is a long time,? he told one rally, ?and it's easy to overlook achievements.? But after years of bitter infighting among Conservatives, he can?t count on an 11th-hour rescue. "Brits don't elect divided parties," says TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Labour leader Tony Blair was low-key in last minute campaigning. "I ask for your vote because I believe in this country...