Word: neglectfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruled that a competent patient has a right to refuse medical treatment (34 states and the District of Columbia recognize "living wills" that forbid extreme treatments). The incompetent and comatose present complex problems. If doctors and families agree to withhold treatment, doctors often quietly practice what they call "judicious neglect," but disagreements still end noisily in court...
...manager says he learned as a second baseman in Baltimore. Middle infielders, the brightest ones, observe the signs and study the patterns. With the same pitch, a scorcher, Gooden comes again at Brock, who tips the ball foul for strike two. A computer type, Johnson tries not to neglect human software either. He knows how to make pulling a pitcher seem a compliment on a par with leaving him in the game. "I see a lot of early Earl Weaver in him," says Frank Cashen, Weaver's old Oriole general manager, who brought Johnson to the Mets last year...
Upon learning of his plans to speak in Lowell House, a diverse group of students spontaneously chose to protest his presence. Our was that it would be gross neglect of civic duty to knowingly allow a spokesperson for racial supremacy to be welcomed into our community without a presentation of deepest outrage. How is one to express that conviction? Which means of action are open to students confronted with the responsibility to protest...
Many experts believe the principal value of the summits has been to force heads of government, especially the American President, to brief themselves on details of trade, currency and interest-rate problems that they might otherwise neglect and to make an effort to gauge what impact their economic policies have on other countries. West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts...
...young people are drifting into a netherworld of unemployment, welfare and crime from which they will not escape. Says Frank Slobig, director of the Roosevelt Centennial Youth Project, a Washington-based group: "We are creating a permanent class of young adults who may never overcome the system's neglect...