Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longest man-made structure also symbolizes disintegration. According to the Peking Evening News, more than half of the 100-mile segment within Peking's municipal limits is in ruins. One 19-mile stretch in Miyun county has virtually disappeared. The collapse is due partly to erosion and neglect through the ages; much damage was also done by peasants who expressed their contempt for tradition during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) by ripping off pieces to build houses and pigpens. Local authorities are now promising to compensate citizens who return pieces of the pilfered masonry...
...coached Szabo from the time she was five, [Lavinia] Agache from the time she was six," he said. "I'm feeling happy for Mary Lou and Julianne and the same thing for my former girls." Little Szabo looks like she would sooner fall off the balance beam than neglect eye shadow. When Retton was the winner and she was the loser in the all-around, it was Szabo's turn to watch Karolyi dance...
Weinberger also accused General Dynamics and its Electric Boat Division last week of "extraordinary neglect" for delivering the first of eleven nuclear-powered Trident submarines 2½ years behind schedule. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, meanwhile, produced documents purporting to show that General Dynamics had made unreasonably low bids on contracts for 18 Los Angeles-class nuclear attack subs, then relied on huge cost overruns to ensure its profits...
...dangerous . . . misstatements." He said that his department had faced the problems listed in the report and he added that "we are vastly improved over what we were in 1980." The problem, Weinberger said, was that "we have a long way to go because we had a long period of neglect...
...Fixx die from exercise or medical neglect...