Word: neglect
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...apartment building is ailing as well. Once an elegant address on Manhattan's Upper West Side, it is now suffering from the not-so-benign neglect of the landlord. Margaret Mary's chief joy and solace is playing the piano, mostly Strauss and Chopin waltzes in tandem with a violin-playing "maiden lady" of about 50 named Cara Varnum (Dorothy Lou-don). Both actresses "fake" their instruments stylishly...
Most, if not all, of Miami's 250 banks have drug money in their accounts. As many as 40 banks still neglect to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more, as required by law. And at least four banks, according to law enforcement officials, are controlled by drug dealers. Treasury Department investigators have long suspected that some smaller banks, known as Coin-o-Washes among both cops and criminals, were founded primarily to launder money for the drug trade...
...discourage campus-wide camaraderie: It was just that if all undergraduates could show up and drink, the master's tenuous legal status as a surrogate parent for his House members would lose its validity. That approach didn't bother students much; so many masters exercised a salutary and complete neglect of the codes to make interhouse booze bashes almost weekly occurrences...
Walter Dean Burnham characterized the American attitude toward Canada as "being neglect," and said America hoped to maintain the "political and economic status quo" in Canada...
...reason the government has allowed Renault such leeway is that it must face competition on the world market. Notes one Renault executive: "I doubt that a purely domestic company would have enjoyed the same benign neglect...