Word: neglectfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limited in what they can do. Faced with a College-wide budgetary squeeze and pressure to keep annual tuition as low as possible, administrators have deferred maintainance on the Houses and buildings, doing only essential repair work. "We know we're not putting enough work into buildings, but the neglect isn't so much that any building is going to fall down," Melissa D. Gerrity, associate dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, explains...
Some, though, tell a different story: they insist HRE is wrought with waste, that its single mission it to make money for the University, and they are the victims. "Sometime in the mid-1970s, Harvard reviewed its policies on real estate. Until then, we had seen benign neglect; now they are in a new abrasive, expansionist phase," Michael Turk, principal organizer of the Harvard Tenants Union, says...
...simply oversight that prompts administration neglect of these issues. It's fear, mostly of alumni. The men who run this University think those who went there in years past and who now provide its financial support will react with alarm should they become enlightened and allow too many female professors, or give too much support to the portion of their students that are gay, or end their policy of supporting apartheid through investments. In a sense, then, alumni are already putting on pressure, and Harvard is already conforming to what it perceives as their wishes...
Referring to the Boston public school funding crisis. Ylvisaker called public education a "sitting duck for politicians, because they can neglect it with a fair amount of impunity...
...fact is that fighting a war, any war, is a grisly, shattering business. Many men take years to recover from it; many never do. Curiously, societies almost always neglect their veterans for the first ten years after a war. Then the veterans get themselves organized into a political force (like the Grand Army of the Republic after the Civil War or the V.F.W. and American Legion after World War I) and politically extract the benefits and pensions that civilian gratitude or pity never got around to bestowing...