Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, such opposition to an Afro-Am program dates back to the department's creation 20 years ago. The subsequent years have seen a constant struggle between those who have supported and those who have opposed--either actively or by casual neglect--the institutional legitimacy that a strong department lends the study of Afro-American issues...
...under a three-man directorship led by Emanuel Tov of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, who says the new arrangement should "speed things up." But a speedup is not enough for Biblical Archaeology Review, which contends that only full access to photographs of unpublished texts will end the "scandal" of neglect...
...ACROSS AMERICA by William H. Gerdts (Abbeville; $425). Only a handful of American artists have entered the national consciousness, even though the country has always brimmed with painters and sculptors. This huge, three- volume history compensates for the neglect by celebrating the brushwork of some 800 gifted men and women. No greater revelation has been published this year...
...just 7% in 1979. There is a price for this, of course, and Britain pays it in the form of inflation, currently at 10.9%; unemployment, at 6% and rising; and disrepair in the social-safety net that Labour had so carefully woven. Roads and railways are showing signs of neglect, homelessness has visibly increased, and Thatcher's critics charge that her kind of individualism implies greed and selfishness...
...challenge is scary: to educate tens of thousands of kids at risk from poverty or neglect while trying to deal with the impact of crack, AIDS, homelessness and middle-class flight to the suburbs. Superintendents must dance with school boards consumed by racial politics, serve on a dozen community boards and learn how to handle the press. In addition to her other duties, Philadelphia superintendent Constance Clayton distributes books to the city's homeless shelters, where 2,500 of her students sleep on any given night. "If I weren't divorced when I took the job," says Floretta McKenzie, former...