Word: neglect
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...made essentially the same point in public the next day. Said he: "You can't decide what you're going to have to spend for defense without looking outside the United States." The military forces, he added, still have "a long way to go to remedy the neglect of the 1970s...
...Right Turks as Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich, invited South African Ambassador Bernardus Fourie to Capitol Hill and gave him a letter threatening to support economic sanctions against South Africa unless there is "a demonstrated sense of urgency about ending apartheid." South Africa, they warned, cannot count on "benign neglect" by American conservatives of its racial policies...
When Rear Admiral John Byng in 1756 failed to repel a French siege of the English naval outpost on Minorca, his superiors were at least partly to blame since they had given the officer an undersized fleet. Nonetheless, Byng was executed for neglect of duty, which prompted Voltaire to observe that among the British "it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others...
...first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been charged with a gross neglect of established health policy by venturing into the artificial health field with an eye for publicity and profit...
...Cambridge official is quoted in the articles as saying the city does not arrest or prosecute sign thieves because such activity would bring attention to the problem--one assumes the official believes such arrests would only increase the challenge and excitement of the thefts. If neglect was the city's strategy for combatting the problem, then the Crimson article should bring an effective end to such an illogical program of prevention. Now well-publicized, signstealing should attract the attention of police who, for too long, have appeared to dispense two types of justice--a harsh one for Cambridge youth...