Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second youngest of five children, Arthur Herman Bremer was born on Aug. 21, 1950 and raised in a shabby, working-class corner of Milwaukee's South Side. According to court and various social service agency records, the Bremers were a problem family in which parental quarreling and neglect were common...
...Bremer's pistol found their mark in George Wallace than another kind of withering fire was directed at the U.S. Declared New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The insane attack upon George Wallace is yet another terrible and inevitable example of the violence of our nation. From the needless neglect of our most pressing national needs, we have reaped a harvest of division, despair and death." In his New York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines outside theaters showing The Godfather...
...Labor Secretary, he encouraged businessmen to fight inflationary wage increases by taking labor strikes, notably the General Electric strike of 1969. This contributed to slowing the economy but had no significant effect on braking wage increases after the 8% G.E. settlement. Later, as budget chief, Shultz advocated "benign neglect" of the U.S. balance of payments problem. Nixon repudiated that advice on Aug. 15 by ending the convertibility of the dollar...
...They have suffered presidential control of foreign policy so long that they just about take it for granted. Now the President had mounted still another dangerous escalation of the Viet Nam War without so much as asking their opinion. It was the culminating humiliation of years of presidential neglect and indifference. The danger was that Congress had acquiesced in its inferior status. "There are members of Congress who are called 'the President's men,' " says Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. "In their view, everything a President recommends is right. Everything a President does is right. Any time...
...result of such neglect and naiveté, 41% of the blacks, 10% of the whites and 26% of both races had been or were pregnant. For this reason, the population commission has recommended that birth control information be freely provided for the nation's teenagers. To support the recommendation, the executive director of the commission, Charles Westoff, quotes a Manhattan teenager: "Refusal to provide education will not prevent sex, but it will certainly prevent responsible...