Word: overlook
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...impressed as I am by Obama, I fear he would be this generation's Jimmy Carter, a man whose humility we appreciate and whose inexperience we're willing to overlook simply because we desire a change from the lies and arrogance of his immediate predecessors. The presidency is no place for on-the-job training...
...your way to Darwin’s, an IOP lecture, or the A.R.T., it’s easy to overlook. But the art housed in the institute is a powerful—albeit eclectic—chronicle of black culture, offering both snapshots and panoramic views...
...fight terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is courting strange bedfellows near you. The DHS will grant $200,000 to Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital to fund research on factors that cause airport security personnel to overlook dangerous items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS’s Transportation Security...
...personal popularity has even convinced many voters to overlook the corruption scandals that forced many of his closest advisors to resign and destroyed the credibility of his Workers' Party (PT). "Lula is no saint, he probably steals a little," said Silvana de Oliveira, an unemployed mother who gets $30 a month from his government. "[But] without the Bolsa Familia I couldn't afford anything. It isn't a lot, but people in precarious situations like me count...
...support, with one magazine [of ammunition] between them. Sure, they call in the coalition forces, but they take 24 hours to arrive. How are they supposed to provide security under those conditions?" On top of this is a paradox at the heart of ISAF's strategy: a decision to overlook poppy cultivation, even though the opium trade is a central prop of the Taliban. But an eradication program would suck ISAF into a grinding war with locals who have no other way to earn a living. All that leaves NATO governments in an awkward bind. They have had to acquiesce...