Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Travelling this busy path, it is perhaps too easy for the president to lose the forest in the trees, to neglect his primary role as leader of the University for the daily challenges which consume so much of his time. While the ethereal quality of leadership does not require the time of other commitments, it asks for the far more precious asset of vision...
...appalled-bourgeois glance. It is what made him a star almost two decades ago in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. And now that he's 41 and finally able to play grownup versions of the punk that was, it is what's making him--after a long season of neglect--a star again...
...next day Mary, who had been taken to a foster home outside the city, was questioned by Samson without an attorney or legal guardian present, the Smiths' suit alleges. Samson then drew up a petition to the juvenile court charging that the Smiths "neglect or refuse to provide care necessary for the health, morals or well being" of their daughter. Counters Jeanelle Kleveland, the Smiths' lawyer: "They had put her under the care of a doctor, and that's who she needed, not the cops." Mary's regular physician was on vacation at the time...
This devotion to material possessions, accompanied by a relative neglect of any higher values, is now a part of American culture. In looking at the state of contemporary America, many commentators rightly bemoan our society's crass materialism, expressing shock at this sorry state of affairs. We should all be disturbed by the moral decay of our nation...
...participatory government that Patten has brought to Hong Kong cannot nourish a democratic culture in the face of a takeover by a country that is neither democratic nor free; without the British model in place, Hong Kong may even find its long-held freedoms eroding, if only from neglect...