Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University should not neglect international celebrities because they are invited to teach by a small department rather than one of the more well-known Harvard disciplines. Harvard's size and decentralized administration should not be an excuse for rudeness and lack of action. Perhaps next September students and faculty will realize that Maryse Condé was here at Harvard and, at the time, few people even noticed...
...they neglect a far more important facet of the large federal system--it absorbs shocks and distributes bumps in trends far more evenly than any small state system could. The federal government, with its unmatched powers of taxation and debt creation, will always be better equipped to deal with sudden onrushes of demand for social services than easily-bankrupted states...
...dinner conversation with TIME editors, Castro says capitalism ``is a catastrophe for the world'' and denounces its effects on the environment. In Europe we know that communism did nothing to preserve our planet. But we also know that ecological neglect was forced on the people of Eastern Europe as long as the two systems were competing for world domination. When communism ceased to be its adversary, capitalism should have changed its system of values. Instead, as Castro says, it keeps on ``digging its own grave...
...neglect of the flag, said Diefenbach in a letter to Vice Mayor Sheila T. Russell, was particularly offensive "in a city of a state which prides itself as a source of American tradition...
...time groused over ``la folie des grandeurs.'' From 1945 until recently, however, Hanoi barely received as much as a fresh coat of paint. Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam was too busy, running first the French out of the North and then the Americans out of the South. Neglect reduced many of the great ocher villas to crumbling ghost houses, often with electric wires dangling from broken windows...