Word: neglect
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These objections indicate that these systems cannot be transplanted to Harvard, but we must not therefore neglect the lesson they teach--that grades are not always necessary to education...
Removing grades from part of education will not always prove disastrous, but it must carry the risk that a man will concentrate his energies on the graded education and neglect the untested...
...zany industrialization plan neglect ed to provide either a basic heavy industry or sufficient power for itself. Electricity shortages cut production, ruined equipment, half-darkened Buenos Aires. As for fuel, Perón left the job of producing oil in the hands of the government-owned State Oilfields (Y.P.F.), which failed so badly that home production dropped from 75% of needs ten years...
...result was that the Government paid out some $260 million last year to farmers to take land out of production often after farmers had already tried to grow a crop on it and failed, either through natural causes such as drought, hailstorms or insect infestation, or by sheer neglect. To nobody's surprise, 1956 farm production set new records...
...Laurent's major opponent was out campaigning too. Barnstorming the eastern seaboard, Tory Leader John Diefenbaker hammered at the Liberal government's "neglect" of the poor-brother Maritime Provinces, and looked like a strong campaigner. But Uncle Louis was in the enviable position of playing to an electorate that is by and large prosperous. Crowed he: "The astonishing fact is that in rate of growth of population, of productivity, of national income, Canada last year outstripped even the U.S. This country is really rolling...