Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tremouille and other neighborhood residents have claimed that although Zero Arrow St. would overlook Mass. Ave., it technically would not front Mass. Ave. and therefore cannot not be approved by the board...
...first thing that Broder and the other high-brow members of the Washington elite overlook when they condemn talk radio is the fact that there really are many informative programs out there. Just last week, Yale professor Paul Kennedy could be heard pushing his book, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, on three different talk-radio programs...
...same light hand is evident in the thousands of books that fill his apartment near Central Park. From his 33rd-floor aerie, he and his second wife Janet, a retired psychiatrist, overlook the city they seldom leave. The proof of Asimov's immobility lies in the terrace situated some 40 ft. from his study. Janet tends the little garden. Incredibly, he has never set foot on the terrace, for the man whose Foundation Trilogy centers on a Galactic Empire and ( interplanetary voyages is terrified of heights. He has flown only once: "It was in the Army, and to refuse meant...
Sections are often reduced to something they are not meant to be: condensed outlines of the lectures and one sentence distillations of readings. Instead of thought-provoking discussions centered around questions like "Melissa, what does Locke overlook in his theory of property?" students are often subjected to an hour-long barrage of questions like "Andy, could you summarize the main points of this week's article...
...spots that showed carabinero security forces beating citizens. In return, police provided protection for opposition rallies and marches. Yet such fragile alliances could easily be shattered by embarrassing demands. For example, most opposition groups want to prosecute the military for human- rights violations. But moderate parties are willing to overlook old abuses in exchange for assurances that new ones will not occur...