Word: overlooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally, let's not overlook the 360-degree turn Harvard baseball made this season on account of some pig-headed athletic intellectuals down on the Cape. Guess we'll just have to go get 'em next year--Ugh, I said it again...
...same endemic corruption, the same extremes of wealth and poverty that led, in part, to Sukarno's downfall. One clue to the potential depth of discontent: in the capital of Jakarta, a teeming (pop. about 6 million) city of shopping centers and new high-rise hotels that overlook crumbling shanty towns, the Muslim party, which had campaigned against the regime's abuse of power, won 46.7% of the vote, while Golkar got only 34.8%. Cabled TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who spent ten days touring Indonesia just before the election: "The powerful odor of corruption that emanates from government...
...familiar double standard when they consider women: to be hired, a female candidate has to be much more qualified than a male. Carter's aides argued against giving a job to Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan because she had no administrative experience. But the talent hunters were willing to overlook similar gaps in the backgrounds of some men who were tapped. Although he was a top staff man for Lyndon Johnson, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano had never managed anything but his desk before becoming the boss of 145,700 people in his current post...
...Mexican-American relationship is one of the best examples of a rich-poor relationship. On the one side is a nation whose world power and concerns allow it to overlook the domestic problems of the developing countries unless they directly affect American interests. On the other hand is a nation on the road to development, whose problems are not entirely a domestic product and whose dependence on a rich neighbor make it impossible to solve its problems without help. Mexico's dependence on the United States is easily seen in the analysis of a Joint Economic Commission released last month...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, The Enquirer's Faculty advisor, said yesterday that one should not overlook "the humorous element" in the publication...