Word: malign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DEMOCRACY IS ALL the rage in Washington this week. Faced with a phenomenal popular revolt against longtime U.S. client Ferdinand Marcos, the Reagan Administration reluctantly adopted an alledgedly interventionist policy. Yet it is in spite of American policy--long one of malign neglect--that the Philippine people have finally won their freedom...
...what is involved. There is also a dearth of both acumen and independent thinking around him. If this analysis is correct, there is good reason to believe that Gramm-Rudman will turn out to be either a means of ravaging many Government functions, including quite legitimate ones, or a malign illusion that merely defers the real day of judgment on the deficit...
...TALKING About Homes is a story of people banding together to save their homes in the face of malign indifference from their landlord, Columbia University. Like most true stories, it is not glamorous, and it does not have a happy ending. What author Lynne Schwartz offers instead is a perspective on urban housing problems which cuts through statistics and policy issues to get to the heart of the matter: people's lives...
Harvard boasts of its laissez-faire computer policy; for those with lean pocketbooks, it might be more accurately described as malign neglect. The University does not simply leave those unable to afford personal computers out in the cold—it burns them with scorn and degradation...
History is made by the famous, but it is endured by the anonymous--ordinary men and women who see themselves as victims of malign forces. That is the guiding principle of much populist scholarship, and it defines the approach taken by J. Anthony Lukas, a Pulitzer-prizewinning former New York Times correspondent, in his story of Boston's public school desegregation by court order...