Word: neglect
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This was the first hint of any change of status in the neighborhood. For the past two decades, rents in the area had been depressed far below the market value, and the buildings had been allowed to fall into disrepair, out of simple neglect. Nobody cared. All that changed last month, as negotiations for sale began to intensify...
...criminal aspects of my life down some, but then it wouldn't be me." He has to understand the social roots of his criminality, not to forgive himself but to know who he is, what he is capable of becoming: "Did I colonize kidnap make war on myself, and neglect myself, steal my identity, and then being reduced to nothing, invent a competitive economy knowing I cannot compete?" He is then ready for the transformation of the last letters, for his "meeting" with the Panthers, with the idea of a revolution that transcends color. He corresponds with Angela Davis...
...enforced, may be too little too late. None of these suggestions are aimed, for example, at discrimination in awards, promotions and battle field assignments. And for many blacks, nothing short of an end to hostilities in South-east Asia can make any sense while the White House exercises "benign neglect of the racial issue" and ignores black needs and while Southern police continue to eliminate black problems with gunfire...
...Vermont, most of whose water-supply systems "generally exhibit the effects of long-term neglect." The bureau also found that there had been at least 300 cases of "waterborne" diseases in the past three years. After the HEW report was issued, Government health officials followed up by advising 35,555 Vermonters served by 69 "undesirable" systems to boil their water before drinking...
...Alamos days are really over. Scientific work only threatens us now. It never accepts our love, the way it did then." Beyond lost innocence the book is about a problem that troubles the age - a sense of having pursued wrong priorities too hotly, an awareness of the neglect of life and love that results. What is left for Timmy is only the melancholy realization that, after all, his father, and his father's generation, meant him no harm...