Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholarly research on all levels. The value of facilitating scholarly research on the upper levels of the academic hierarchy is unquestionable, but to do so at the expense of instruction on the lower levels is a remarkably short-sighted substitution of short-term for long-term goals. The neglected graduate students of today are the mediocre scholars of tomorrow; the undergraduates they, in turn, neglect, are too often frustrated in their own efforts to grow intellectually in an environment which should have so much to offer. If the changes that are to come in Harvard University's administration signal...
...something essentially peculiar to the West. Though it is a good sign that West Germans can take many political liberties for granted, they ought not forget these rights are far from being universally respected. The Greens should not admire their right to oppose the state so much that they neglect to exercise it; nevertheless, it would not be altogether inappropriate for the party to develop greater sensitivity in making assumptions about the application of that right, both in West Germany and in the East...
...thorn in the side of educational policy makers. If educators support funding for academic programs tailored to gifted students, they perpetuate the unjustified, though in most cases understandable, stigma of elitism surrounding such programs and risk alienating the parents of less talented children. Conversely, if national policy makers neglect gifted children at the expense of the majority, those who have the money go to private schools, while those who cannot, become bored, unchallenged, and fall through the cracks of the school system...
...continuing occupation is having a profound impact on the Israeli forces. Some high-ranking Israeli officers, including Major General Yossi Peled, argue that this enormous burden has caused the I.D.F. to neglect its training...
...restraint was admirably diplomatic, considering the provocation. The day before, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Lawrence Eagleburger had denounced Western Europe for its selfish neglect of the Atlantic Alliance. As he told a foreign policy conference in Washington, "We have seen a more and more inner-directed Western Europe, more and more concerned with its own problems, more and more concerned with its economic difficulties, less and less in time with the U.S. It is ever more difficult to get Western Europe to look outside its own borders." He described Western Europe's attitude as "almost a contemplation...