Word: overshadowment
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...flap over Bad Barry shouldn't overshadow the fact that we are watching one of the greatest players the game has ever produced. Like Ruth, Bonds has changed the sport. Before Ruth, the name of the game was "scientific" baseball, a singles strategy designed to move runners from station to station to create a run. With his mighty uppercut, the Bambino ended that style forever and made power primary to winning...
...deeply upsetting that The Crimson editorial board has chosen to overshadow and in effect dismiss the council’s ardent efforts with overblown rhetoric and disrespect toward council members’ hard work (Editorial, “Communication Failure, Again...
...about how best to commemorate the loss. There are many competing pressures and different viewpoints. I am convinced that ground zero must first and foremost be a memorial. All other decisions should flow from that goal. If anything else is added to the site, it should complement and not overshadow the memorial. People a hundred years from now should be able to grasp the enormity of this attack by visiting this sacred ground. Ground zero is a cemetery. It is the last resting place for loved ones whose bodies were not recovered and whose remains are still within that hallowed...
...Dukakis said the debate over how to rein in corporate abuse should not overshadow the problems of economic inequality in the country. He bemoaned the growing gap between the rich and the poor, calling the current $5.25 minimum wage “sinful” while stressing the need for more investment in equalizing public education funding...
That work seems certain to overshadow everything else on Congress's agenda this year--which is just fine with Republicans, who had feared spending an election-year summer talking about a prescription-drug benefit and defending themselves on Social Security reform. "Bush finally has a domestic agenda," says a relieved White House adviser. But that doesn't mean there won't be arguments. The leaders of the House and Senate will be busy quelling the turf fights that have already begun. The biggest losers will be the Treasury Department, which would give up the Secret Service and Customs...