But it also means that we spend a lot of time ignoring the richness of the world around us.
In 2008, I tried again, this time ignoring my colleagues at work.
Sites like HauteLook, MYHABIT, Rue La La, yoox, Gilt, Ideeli, and Bluefly, just to name a few, offer special deals on fashion goods that shoppers have a hard time ignoring.
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Opponents of racial preferences also accuse the other side of double standards: on the one hand lamenting the decline of black and Latino enrolment since 1996, yet at the same time ignoring the dramatic increase in the number of Asians admitted during that period.
But if investors are ignoring the politicians, for the time being, they are definitely not ignoring the central bankers.
Today's time-travel movies generally follow the blueprint of entertainment-above-science, often farcically ignoring the contradictions caused by time-travel storytelling.
But ignoring America's objections this time, Turkey issued an invitation to another Islamist firebrand, the Iraqi Shia cleric, Muqtada Al-Sadr.
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McCarthy hopes to avoid the pitfalls of the transfer period this month by ignoring overseas players, who often require additional time to acclimatize to the British game.
It creates an unfair, jump-the-gun, time-to-market advantage, by ignoring the rule of law standard of securing permission from property owners before use in the marketplace, a business practice that law-abiding competitors must respect.
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Brennan met privately around the time of the NYU speech with another advocate of ignoring the Islamic motivation driving many terrorists.
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And was Jobs systematically ignoring the lack of women in his executive ranks at the same time?
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Why spend so much time focusing on the economists who got it wrong while ignoring those who got it right?
However, at a time when several surveys show that engagement is at record lows, ignoring how workers feel about coming to work is a big mistake.
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Investors and their advisors seem to be ignoring the deepening financial abyss faced by many states and municipalities at the same time they are issuing records amount of new debt.
Most businesses haven't spruced up billing and accounting to keep pace with the complex services, creating a system riddled with waste--paying bills for inactive lines, ignoring discounts and failing to spot employee fraud and curb excessive dial-up time from workers' homes.
Even as he pushed policies for economic growth, Mr. Reagan was accused of ignoring the social safety net ("shredding the social safety net" was the popular phrase at the time).
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