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...performance review presented by the commissioners enumerated 12 major infractions allegedly committed by Neighbor, dating back to 1991, as justification for their recommendation. Included among these were charges of insubordination and neglect of details that cost the city thousands of dollars...
...Today the scientific capability of theAmerican university is the envy of the world,"Levin said. "We neglect its support at our peril...
...white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor to the house said it has had an air of neglect since McNamara's wife Margaret died in 1981. McNamara, who won't be back at the house until the fall, told the Cape Cod Times that his visits include "running down to the beach and having a little swim in the nude in the morning...
Many experts dig deeper -- but the roots they pull up are a messy tangle of societal ills. "We have a whole generation of kids suffering from neglect," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Houston's Rice University. "There is no one at home when they return from school, and this neglect in socialization results in increased violence." Others cite neglect's twin evil, child abuse, or that distant relative, school truancy. Liberals decry poverty; conservatives fault the decline of family values...
...real world -- an estimated 466 dolphins, 34 belugas, 20 killer whales, 10 false killer whales and two short-finned pilot whales are held in the U.S. -- the debate is not so simple. Because of government regulation and adverse publicity in the past, cases of outright abuse and neglect at aquariums and theme parks have become rare. Says Sam Sadove, of the Okeanos Ocean Research Foundation in Hampton Bays, New York: "By and large, the facilities are pretty good. Sure, there are things that are questionable, but that doesn't mean you should condemn the entire industry." Sea World, whose four...