Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ratcheted up his rhetoric and vowed to go after Clinton hard on character. At the first prep session, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Clinton tried hitting back, rebutting Dole's criticisms and calling him hypocritical. But everyone could see it didn't work, so Penn proposed a strategy of benign neglect: "Clinton Soars, Dole Whines." Answer attacks when you must, he told Clinton, but end each answer with a short upbeat phrase, like, "I want to build that bridge...
Even the worst kids are victims themselves--in fact, it's usually the worst kids who have been most grievously victimized. A Connecticut study, for example, found that 60% of boys and 90% of girls who are arrested have documented histories of neglect and abuse. Most child criminals are desperately poor; many are the products of multiple foster homes. As Hillary Clinton might say, it takes a village to produce a child predator...
After flipping through pages long enough, I sometimes worry about the books suffering neglect. Who is reading the five miles of books Harvard's brochures brag about? For what purpose did their authors toil to write them? And who needs them all? Once in a while, I'll check out a book whose last date stamp is 17 June 1965 and wonder how many other books have sat on the shelves since Lyndon Johnson was president, waiting to be taken out or even given a second glance...
...stipend" of $15. Nowadays they don't even get that, though television-rights fees have increased exponentially, and shoe money has pushed the income of some coaches into seven figures. According to NCAA rules, a player can't hold a part-time job during the school year, lest he neglect his studies, or worse, be given a no-show, easy-money position. The current executive director of the NCAA, Cedric Dempsey, has appointed a special committee to explore ways to help the welfare of student athletes...
...some odd reason, you neglect to make a wage/ That's high enough to land you in this gilded age,/ You'll spend your time where gangs and crime and drugs still rage./ That's the cage they call "Offstage...