Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee must keep in mind when formulating such reforms that eliminating athletics programs will not just protect students from exposure to an unhealthy environment: it is also closing off perhaps the only avenue many students have to "getting out"--a painful reality that culturally arrogant policy makers often overlook...
...SEXUAL harassment survey released last week showed that more than one-third of women students and faculty at Harvard have been sexually harassed. It's a disturbing statistic, and one several national newspapers have seen fit to report. But the national media may overlook an equally strong, but more subtle finding of the report--that sexism is alive and well at Harvard...
Finally, a student should not have to worry about watching other students during a test, or just wonder whether someone, somewhere is using crib notes. Let uninvolved, paid proctors assume those responsibilities, as they do at Harvard. This is not to say that students necessarily should overlook clear violations. But they should not be bound by rules like Princeton's that would punish them if they were to remain silent...
Reagan and Speakes predictably overlook Clark's lack of experience in either the formulation or implementation of environmental policies. But worse, Clark's record on the California Supreme Court reveals that, in each of 12 cases concerning the environment. Clark sided with development interests. Now he hopes to manage a department with an annual budget of millions that seeks to enforce environmental regulations...
...Negro," he said, "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity and finds himself an exile in his own land." King continued stolidly: "It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality...