Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human problem. They see farms and livestock only as statistics. As a result, relief is grudging and reluctant, too much red tape, too little real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing-until election year came around...
Last year the Missouri legislature had passed a law providing for fire protection in convalescent homes, only to have it invalidated by an attorney general's ruling. Missouri, however, is not alone in its neglect of convalescent homes. To find out what sort of people are in such homes, what they pay and what kind of care they get, the U.S. Public Health Service collaborated with the Commission on Chronic Illness in a detailed study in 13 representative states. Results: ¶ More than 80% of Connecticut's homes have registered nurses on their staffs; in several states only...
...most U.S. railroads the passenger business is a money-losing headache. To the passengers, most railroaders are mossback operators who neglect service while engaging in a never-ending round of raising fares, chopping schedules and eliminating branch lines. Last week another big fare boost loomed for the embattled passengers. The Pennsylvania and the New York Central, which together move 27% of all U.S. passengers, are trying to get the rest of the nation's passenger lines to join them in asking for a first-class-fare hike of 33⅓% to 50%. To many experts it looked...
...Eucrates, an archon of Athens, was famed for neglect and excuses...
...entirely different purpose. Rather than enable estimates of course size, the cards should make students consider their plans and talk them over with their advisers and tutors, claim the officials. On the incorrect assumption that bureaucrats want what they ask for, students frequently produce the study card but neglect the planning and discussion. Tutors aid the subversion of the card's aim by signing whatever tutees push at them, sometimes even blank study cards, without questions...