Word: overlooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there in my office with her, that she is not exactly what you call a great beauty. Then it struck me that this is who this story is about: a nice-looking girl, a sexy girl, but not the best-looking girl in the class. Someone you would almost overlook...
...dogs." A similar result is found among human patients-even people in deep comas often show improved heart rates when their hands are held by doctors or nurses. Lynch's point is that medical personnel intuitively know the healing value of the human touch but sometimes manage to overlook the principle because it seems unscientific...
...management at Crédit Suisse chose to overlook some astonishingly clear signals that all was not well at their Chiasso branch. In January 1976, for example, Philippe de Weck, chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland, showed Crédit Suisse a copy of a bank guarantee, improperly issued on fiduciary deposits, that had been channeled to Texon. Questioned about the violation, Kuhrmeier explained it away by saying, "It was a special favor that had to be done for a friend...
...Country, near Williamsburg, has a vast Festhaus where visitors can quaff Michelob and munch bratwurst. The company's Dark Continent, near Tampa, has replicated a famed Swiss inn and offers one of the few gourmet menus in the world that allows the diner to eat, sip wine and overlook the goings-on of free-ranging chimps, giraffes, zebras, ostriches and elephants...
...veterinary education in the U.S. [April 18] may be the result of a "back-to-basics, return-to-the-land ethos." Even so, I was surprised at the narrow perspective you take of this dynamic and growing profession. Although you allude to the involvement of veterinarians in research, you overlook their involvement in a broad range of public health activities...