Word: overlooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, Sadat tends to overlook such dealings. Since he is part of the system, he has no desire to topple it. Rather, he has a stake in preserving the existing social structure, and he believes that the best way to preserve it is to stabilize the whole area by getting a peace settlement-one written by a moderate like Anwar Sadat...
Pipes's failure to discuss the rising proletariat is his most serious omission. In the end, his conservative bias leads him to overlook the savior in Russian history he was looking for. And with this error, it is no wonder that his Russia remained the vast, backward, absolutist country it had been for centuries...
...forgo further trouble. They turned their power of final approval or disapproval of the awards over to Columbia President William J. McGill. It was an unnecessary copout. Apparently sensitive to past criticism, the 14 journalists and publishers on the Pulitzer board seemed to go out of their way to overlook a President's resignation, the CIA revelations, gathering disaster in Indochina and complex Middle East diplomacy in an effort to find relatively noncontroversial subjects for their awards...
...states, "Furthermore, quotas completely overlook merit where it should be the basis for consideration." There can be no question of merit in deciding if different racial groups should have equal opportunities for quality education in public facilities. This is a self-evident constitutional guarantee. Anyway, the case in Boston is clear--race, not merit or other considerations, has for many years been the basis of both busing patterns and school location decisions...
...quotas are not only arbitrary and unworkable, they are wrong, wrong in school assignments, hiring, or membership in any organization. Quotas cause people to be treated differently on the basis of their race, with the effect of excluding people from many positions because of their race. Furthermore, quotas completely overlook merit where it should be the basis for consideration. If a disproportionate number of Jews study and work enough to become doctors, then a disproportionate number of Jews should be doctors...