Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME has learned that federal authorities believe the cocky, stubby union leader has been murdered. The suspected reason: to prevent him from disrupting the lucrative deals between the Mafia and the Teamsters that had developed since 1967, when Hoffa was imprisoned for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Under the benign leadership of Frank Fitzsimmons, Hoffa's hand-picked successor as president, powerful local Teamster chiefs allowed the Mob to wheel and deal with the union's $1.3 billion pension fund. Gangsters from Chicago and Cleveland arranged loans from the fund for clients who were less than impeccable credit...
...President Ford's remarks made earlier this year that the urban crisis of the 1960s is over. Similarly, a few years back, when the need for massive welfare programs to the urban poor was so obvious, Daniel P. Moynihan presented and the Nixon administration later championed the doctrine of "benign neglect" towards blacks...
Statements so at odds with visible urban needs--like "benign' neglect"--lead us to believe that our nation's policy makers are simply too lazy to walk a few blocks beyond their Washington office buildings. But more likely, at least in the case of the Nixon administration, the policy-makers probably stole a glance down the street and then opened up their copies of Edward C. Banfield's Unheavenly City to understand what they...
...administration has dealt with it. "It's hard for us in administrative positions to deal with," he says. "Before, we used to know everybody. We knew how to deal with them. Our pain threshold is very low on economic matters. We hurt quickly. After thirteen years of benign neglect there's some positive, detailed interference in ways there wasn't before...
...forming links with Peking, a strong case can be made that the biggest loser of the Viet Nam War was Communist China and not, as it may at first have appeared, the U.S. One admittedly prejudiced senior China watcher in Washington puts it thus: "The removal of the relatively benign American presence from the southern flank of China has caused Peking a lot of worry. Hanoi's relations with China are uneasy. Soviet access to Southeast Asia-possibly a naval base at Cam Ranh Bay [site of the largest U.S. military installation during the Viet Nam War]-would change...