Word: neglect
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Rather than taking responsibility for the missing soldiers, Kissinger blamed the abandonment of the POWs on "the Vietnamese," who "are certainly capable of such a cynical act," as if an entire race of people could be responsible for Nixon's neglect of the soldiers...
...Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...
Congress is constantly blamed in this election season for neglecting the problems of the inner cities in New York and Los Angeles--as well as the concerns of small town America and our nation's farms. But Washington, D.C. is under the direct control of Congress. And if anyone has the right to complain it's the people who live there. Congress' neglect of the problems that are under their jurisdiction shows the real political neglect practiced these days by our leaders...
...agreed to present the program simultaneously, with ABC showing it two nights later, thus avoiding the pre-emption of the popular 20/ 20. Narrated by talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, herself a victim, Scared Silent mirrors the conclusions of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, a federal panel (several of whose members served as consultants to the film) that has in fact labeled child abuse a "national emergency...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, by contrast, embraces the word. "A little neglect would not be bad," he says. " The more orphaned we are, the better for Africa. We will have to rely on ourselves. We have to go back to the year 1500, where we left off building an economy integrated in itself, able to produce its own food, its own tools, its own weapons...