Word: overlooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attorney in Cook County, had been indicted by a special grand jury. He was charged with trying to prevent an honest investigation of the police raid on a Black Panther apartment in 1969 that resulted in the death of two blacks.* At first, Daley was willing to overlook his loyal protege's indiscretion; Hanrahan was on the 1972 slate of Democratic candidates proclaimed by Daley early in December. But Daley did not realize how badly Hanrahan had been hurt...
...some it is fairly easy to put blame on India for the deterioration of the situation in the subcontinent. However, these observers seem to overlook the fact that India has acted with restraint and patience for the last nine months, struggling hard to feed, shelter and cure the 10 million extra people in the already overcrowded country while the world "watched...
...Does current social policy really have liberalizing goals? Despite the rhetoric, many of us have been driven to a negative answer in recent years by evidence too painful to overlook any more. As Herrnstein himself states, we simply do not know how much, if any, of the current I.Q. difference between social groups is genetically determined. (Herrnstein fortunately avoids Jensen's fallacious extrapolation of heritability from data within a group to a comparison between groups.) If, as is entirely possible, external rather than genetic inequalities are primarily responsible for current I.Q. differences between social classes, and if these external inequalities...
...There seemed to be a tacit agreement between the City and Harvard to overlook it since no hard liquor was sold," one tutor said...
...inclined for a time to moody fatalism, his nearly hyperthyroid present political pace and his family life leave little time for brooding. The Kennedys' $750,000 gray-shingled house and five acres in McLean, Va., overlook the Potomac River. Despite the back injury from his near-fatal 1964 air crash, he plays tennis frequently, at his own court or at Ethel's home at Hickory Hill, often coaching his two eldest children. He swims once or twice a week in the Senate gym, skis with the family on winter vacations and occasionally hazards a game of touch football...