Word: neglectfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such expenses should not be passed on to tenants, Turk says, if they were caused by neglect in past years. "I think we may be on a collision course with Harvard's 'five-year-plan'" for improvements, Turk said, adding that the HTU drive would center on an effort to force the Rent Board to reinterpret its own guidelines...
...apartment building is ailing as well. Once an elegant address on Manhattan's Upper West Side, it is now suffering from the not-so-benign neglect of the landlord. Margaret Mary's chief joy and solace is playing the piano, mostly Strauss and Chopin waltzes in tandem with a violin-playing "maiden lady" of about 50 named Cara Varnum (Dorothy Lou-don). Both actresses "fake" their instruments stylishly...
...operas, at least: "I think I am a good opera composer. There have been some 3,000 performances of The Mother of Us All. It makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced a Thomson opera, and the composer is puzzled by the neglect. But in the long run he is philosophical: "I agree with one French critic who said that I am essentially a predecessor." Of what? That is for his successors to decide. "Some artists close things," says Thomson. "I am the kind who opens things...
Most, if not all, of Miami's 250 banks have drug money in their accounts. As many as 40 banks still neglect to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more, as required by law. And at least four banks, according to law enforcement officials, are controlled by drug dealers. Treasury Department investigators have long suspected that some smaller banks, known as Coin-o-Washes among both cops and criminals, were founded primarily to launder money for the drug trade...
...discourage campus-wide camaraderie: It was just that if all undergraduates could show up and drink, the master's tenuous legal status as a surrogate parent for his House members would lose its validity. That approach didn't bother students much; so many masters exercised a salutary and complete neglect of the codes to make interhouse booze bashes almost weekly occurrences...