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Whatever the risks, tan enthusiasts seem willing to overlook them for the immediate benefit: a healthy-looking golden glow. Says Rob Bernstein, 31, who spends 30 minutes each weekday at a tanning salon in Dallas: "I think a year- round tan is a good, successful, power look. It's just a part of good grooming." Better yet, a tan in the dead of winter implies that the wearer has the money and leisure to travel to exotic, sunny locales. Says Jeff Russell, 23, of Evanston, Ill.: "It's a conversation piece. People are always asking, 'Where have you been...
...somehow, in the process of not doing ail that, they also managed to overlook the Crimson's fifth starter...
...well. They talk of an America when baseball, like Jazz music, was not a respectable profession. It was difficult for Jimmy Austin to rush off to Dayton Ohio to play ball in a factory league for forty dollar's a month. It was equally difficult for Harry Hoper to overlook a good job as an engineer to try his luck as a center fielder. It was also trying for Marquard to listen to his father warning him never to return home as he embarked upon his career as a pitcher. This notion that they were participating in a somehow unacceptable...
McCarthy believes that most student cyclists, under the pressure of time, often tend to overlook the rules and regulations governing bike riding...
...another four years of social program slashing. Is it mere coincidence that the pastoral letter on economic policy and social justice landed on the President's White House desk just as he was deliberating over next year's proposed budget cuts? How could the President's shrewd advisers overlook the tone of the Bishops' statement which was just as critical of the federal government as last year's letter on the nuclear arms race...