Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specifies no duties for the Vice President other than that he be available to replace the President in the event of death or incapacity and that he preside over the Senate. The former is hardly a full-time job, and the latter is a ridiculous chore, increasingly honored by neglect. Any additional duties are given to a Vice President at the discretion and whim of the President and, as Hubert Humphrey knowingly reminded Gerald Ford earlier this year, "he who giveth can taketh away-and often does...
...admissions policy. Blacks are going to have to come to grips with their powerlessness in both alumni and faculty quarters. While it is not blacks's exclusive responsibility to go out and recruit, it is incumbent upon them to reinitiate an active vigil over Harvard admissions. If black students neglect this responsibility there is nobody else to carry it out for them...
...made to ease the plight of America's 20 million blacks, Nixon adopted a hands-off approach. His textual justification, wrenched out of its context, was Moynihan's statement that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue had been "too much talked about" but also that other minorities (Indians, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans) were not getting enough attention. In any neglect" case, to seemed many distinctly blacks, malign. "benign...
...Latin America, still sore about what it regards as a Nixon policy of neglect, President Ford would do well to continue the renewal of U.S. attention haltingly begun by Kissinger in the past six months. Additionally, Ford will soon have to make a decision that Nixon avoided: whether to take a leading role in bringing an increasingly prosperous Cuba back into the American community, or stand by while Latin American states re-establish diplomatic relations with Havana one by one on their own. Nixon had shied away from recognition of Cuba after Southern Senators, his mam support in the Senate...
Although Erdman does not neglect characterization and the mechanics of storytelling, he is more intent on delivering cold truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about...