Word: derelict
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...part, a President is perfectly justified in picking Justices to advance his political mandate. A chief executive who did not would be, as Professor Wright puts it, "unfaithful to democratic theory and derelict in his duty...
...gathering tragedy is that Ralphie is not special. Heroin, long considered the affliction of the criminal, the derelict, the debauched, is increasingly attacking America's children. Part of the dread and the danger of the problem is that it spreads all too invisibly. No one knows how many heroin addicts of any age there are in the U.S. But in New York City alone, where most experts think roughly half the heroin users in the U.S. live, 224 teenagers died from overdoses or heroin-related infections last year, about a quarter of the city's 900 deaths from...
Boll's victims include an orphaned boy allowed to die because a doctor is off selling drugs to the black market, a veteran who becomes the human outline for a knife thrower and finds the "courage born of despair," a derelict in a Communist country who is arrested for breaking the law by wearing a sad face. These are the legion of the lost unable to cope with either the wartime guilt or the moral vacuum created partly by the astounding material success of Germany's postwar economy...
...leave the Army? But perhaps because it was only seven sentences long, perhaps because it was carried early on a Saturday morning, the item stirred no special interest in the nation's press. According to A.P. General Manager Wes Gallagher, who concedes that A.P. was "derelict" in not following up the story itself, the news service did not receive "a single call from an individual paper or from broadcasters" requesting additional information. And so one of the biggest stories of the Viet Nam War -the massacre at My Lai-remained dormant for another two months...
...tentative conclusion is that in offices, schools and streets, a big-city feeling of personal anonymity encourages destructive behavior. It is discouraged by a sense of community-an atmosphere in which vandals feel that anyone watching disapproves of what they are doing. To check his theory, Zimbardo parked a derelict car in a middle-class neighborhood of suburban Palo Alto, California. During three days of observation, he reports, it was not touched once...