Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection full of statistics, it is easy to overlook those games which, because of emotion, match history and timing often become turning points during a season...
That's unusual in an election year, but President Clinton may overlook it. Of the 250,000 jobs created last month, gains were especially strong for groups that Clinton is eager to please, including workers under 25 and over 54. Other winners included African-American males over 20, whose 8.1% unemployment rate is the lowest it's been since the early 1970s...
First, though, she had to watch him go still farther away. When he was 21, Leyden joined the Marines. According to Leyden, for the first two years of his service at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station in Hawaii, his supervisors chose to overlook his extracurricular activities. "Off duty, I'd walk around in a tank top so people could see my tattoos," he says. "I wore my Dr. Martens, kept my hair as short as possible and tucked in my pants the way Nazis used to do. I had a Third Reich battle flag in my locker...
...made him a traitor in the eyes of people in both parties. He could work simultaneously for Jesse Helms and Mother Teresa and see no inherent contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn't called him as yet.) What these critics overlook, says Henry Sheinkopf, a consultant who works with Morris on the Clinton media team, "is that Dick is a man of the sensible middle: a brilliant strategist, of course, but one driven by centrist ideas. He wants to draw politicians from the left and right into the mainstream. He does...
...addition, the kids visiting the campus seem to appreciate the little things about Harvard life students overlook. These kids like sleeping in. SANSKRITing him an academic who could not relate well with others...