Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eisenhower's first year in office, McCarthy was supported by 50% of the people in a Gallup poll, with only 29% opposed to him. The history books tell us that many national figures -- including Eisenhower himself -- were afraid to defy McCarthy in his reckless early days; we neglect the reason -- the outpouring of popular support for him. His continued attack on Eisenhower's Republican Administration showed that McCarthy too was not a mere partisan. He was outside the system, able to see its fatal weakness -- so the system, through the press, was trying to destroy him. Many had called...
...Hunt believes that the attitude towards religion at Harvard is characterized by neglect rather than opposition or discouragement...
...other reformers -- in part because private polls and focus groups showed that his hesitant initial response to the riots had undermined his reputation for decisive leadership in a crisis. Still, some advisers doubt that Bush will make passage of conservative antipoverty programs a real priority, given his neglect of them for the past three years. Said one White House official: "The burden is on us to show that we will fight for this...
...political cliches. Beginning with White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, Republicans blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal permissiveness. The Democratic response, from putative presidential nominee Bill Clinton on down, was equally predictable: this time the villains were a decade of Republican neglect of urban problems and the laissez-faire moral climate of the Reagan years...
...blamed Democratic Great Society social programs enacted in the '60s and '70s that had backfired -- a statement so widely derided that Bush quickly amended it to say merely that those programs had lamentably not worked very well. Democratic heir presumptive Bill Clinton in turn decried "12 more years of neglect" of racial and urban ills while Republicans have held the White House...