Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walter Dean Burnham characterized the American attitude toward Canada as "being neglect," and said America hoped to maintain the "political and economic status quo" in Canada...
...reason the government has allowed Renault such leeway is that it must face competition on the world market. Notes one Renault executive: "I doubt that a purely domestic company would have enjoyed the same benign neglect...
Moreover, this attitude of benign neglect was not limited to the four physicians involved, as the actions taken by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) throughout the controversy strongly suggest. One BWH doctor observed last week that the hospital felt Hussain's trial "didn't have anything to do with his professional abilities." Furthermore, when the new controversy broke, hospital administrators not only remained silent on the issue, but ordered their staffs to avoid comment as well, hoping, as one staff member put it, that the whole thing would "blow over...
...recent months there have been few new arrests, but the general mood of the government is hardly one of tolerance. The party leadership embarked on a series of programs that are menacing reminders of the dangers of departing from ideological orthodoxy. For example, after a long period of neglect, political study sessions have once again become mandatory in schools, offices and factories. This month foreign correspondents in Peking were warned by a high-ranking official in the Foreign Ministry against giving favorable coverage to dissidents...
...serious in its commitment to obtain decent wages and working conditions for all workers, it must impress the members of its unions, and all non-union workers also, that the welfare of the working poor is worth sacrificing for and that they, in their current prosperity, should not neglect their roots...