Word: neglected
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...Seabrook nuclear power plant were forced to serve actual jail terms rather than suspended sentences. He tends to rule in favor of the prosecution in criminal trials. But Souter is also a great supporter of environmental and consumer protection, of victims' rights, and of giving child abuse and neglect cases high priority. He let the government in the skinflint state of New Hampshire know at the end of a suit to recover $206 in mistaken payments from an indigent that he would not look favorably on similar suits in the future. At Concord Hospital, where he served on the board...
...eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for 14 hours before delivering its verdict. The Twitchells' attorney, Rikki Klieman, promptly announced plans to appeal. Her primary argument, she says, will be that Judge Sandra Hamlin misinterpreted a 1971 Massachusetts statute on child abuse and neglect, which creates a legal exemption for those who believe in spiritual healing. Some 44 states provide some sort of religious exemption. In the Twitchell case, the first to test the Massachusetts law, Hamlin ruled that "a subjective belief in healing by prayer" is no excuse for not obtaining medical help when a child is seriously...
...course, this neglect of his responsibilities has become hardly surprising from George Bush. When he vetoes FMLA, it will be his twelfth veto. And he is not vetoing bills passed narrowly by the Democratic congressional majority. The FMLA is an example. This bill received vocal support in the House not only from Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Co.) but also from Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and Rep. Marge Roukema (R-N.J.), as well as more than 30 other Republicans. And in the Senate, where the bill passed unanimously, not only Sen. Ted Kennedy...
Last month a thousand demonstrators camped outside the National Institutes of Health near Washington and with a talented display of street theater protested governmental and scientific neglect of AIDS. If not the angriest demonstration Washington has seen in a long time, it was certainly the most misdirected. The idea that American government or American society has been inattentive or unresponsive to AIDS is quite simply absurd. Consider...
Phillips sees signs in a few polls that middle-class Americans are ready to ! reject Reagan's era of neglect toward the poor. But, so far, signs of any sort of populism are scant, even among Democrats who presumably would harness it. The U.S., still largely dominated by self-reliant escapees of a stratified Europe, has been disinclined to believe that Government should help narrow the gap between rich and poor. Only 29% favor the idea, according to a recent poll. The concept became particularly distasteful in the 1960s, when the push for civil rights redefined equality largely in racial...