Word: neglect
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Activists, unite against Hollywood's neglect of a new star. Save this whale...
David Flood of the Cambridge Tenant's Union said, "There is an irresponsible group of landlords...who neglect their properties." Flood said the city should force such landlords who have irresponsibly deferred needed repairs to renovate the housing and pay for it themselves...
...campaign to get Senate support for Guinier or cut her loose quickly. But the White House, distracted by troubles with its budget package, dithered. The Administration failed even to introduce Guinier to Senators, a job black lawyer and former Transportation Secretary William Coleman took upon himself to do. Such neglect hardened Guinier's resolve and sense of independence. By the time Clinton realized Guinier was in serious trouble, not just with conservatives but also with liberals like the Senate Judiciary Committee's Joseph Biden and Ted Kennedy, it was already too late to persuade her to slip quietly...
This mistreatment, he says, is a combination of deceit, insensitivity and neglect. "First we don't tell them they are dying. We do tell them their diagnosis and all the alternative treatments available. But we don't tell them their prognosis. We tell them 'You have cancer, and you can have surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or all three together, or even any two.' We don't tell them that no matter what we do, it's almost certain they are going to die soon...
...Harvard has indeed invested time and money into environmental issues," the report's introduction reads. "Unfortunately among the improvements lie areas of neglect which, if ignored, will render Harvard environmentally behind the times...