Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With one or more television screens, each showing a small bladder area enlarged to a 7-in. diameter, any number of doctors or students can look inside the patient's bladder simultaneously. There is far less chance of a diagnostic oversight when the physician can re-ex amine his findings on tape, and his observations are instantly checked by colleagues. At later stages of treatment, or if the patient moves away and is treated by another doctor, the color videotape record will recall accurately and precisely what the original condition...
Even to someone who has never read Casino Royale (which may not be such a horrible oversight) it is immediately clear that the movie borrows only a little and, I suppose, an audience from the book. The script, which appears to have been written by a select society on the order of the Warren Commission, is also about as funny as the Warren Report, and as likely to be the spy movie to end all spy movies as the Warren Commission's product is to be the final word on the Kennedy assassination...
...Squawks. That oversight was only one of the charges made by the review board in a searing report that runs some 3,300 pages and weighs 19 Ibs. Although six of the eight board members work for NASA, they lodged a broad indictment against the conduct of the entire $23 billion Apollo program by the space agency and North American, the prime contractor. There were, said the report, "many deficiencies in design and engineering, manufacture and quality control...
...having been amputated of half my history." It also rankled James that the city of New York had not seen fit to erect a small monument at the birthplace of a man who had made his mark in American letters. Now New York University has corrected the oversight by unveiling a plaque on its Brown Building on Washington Place: NEAR...
...documentary in France. But in the U.S., Tommie Smith, 22, a home-grown lad from Acworth, Texas, is virtually unknown. He was not even among the ten candidates for the A.A.U.'s 1966 Sullivan Award to the country's top amateur athlete.* And the oversight seems doubly strange because Smith is currently the best sprinter in the world, as well as one of the most versatile athletes in the history of track and field...