Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out that officer Alvarez had been investigated five times in the last year for things like false arrest, neglect of duty, and brutality. As a punishment, admitted the police, Alvarez was assigned to a low-income Black neighborhood. On the night he killed Johnson, they added. Alvarez had violated police rules by leaving his assigned patrol sector and going to the arcade...
...accepted federal money (90% of the cost) to build them without realizing how expensive it was to maintain them. Incredibly, Congress did not vote a penny in federal funds for interstate repairs until 1976, when the system was already 20 years old, and routine maintenance remains a state obligation. Neglect at state and county levels is most obvious on the farm-to-market roads that are vital to agricultural production. As farms have grown larger, huge tractors, combines and cultivators are literally pulverizing these roads, which were built for much lighter loads. The family farmer who commonly hauled...
...revolutionaries who have declared their inflexible antipathy toward the U.S. This, understandably, was a natural reaction against the American policy of expansion and domination of Mexico. It is a policy that, since the middle of the last century, has oscillated between the big stick and benign neglect...
Your comment that the Soviet Union is currently facing an economic crisis because of its tremendous defense spending should be a warning to President Reagan. If we continue to pour money into our war machine and neglect other problems, especially unemployment, we will find ourselves in the same situation as the Soviets. Michele Liguori-Ram Brockport...
...bottle bill in Massachusetts is long overdue. If executed effectively, it will help to clean up the streets and the parks of the state. If it is implemented perfectly, all bottles and cans will be returned for their deposits. But obviously some consumers--out of apathy or laziness--will neglect to collect their money, leaving millions in spare cash for somebody's coffers...