Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other forms of malfeasance." The committee later showed that thievery was not the only problem. "Countless millions," said the committee, had been lost in union or jointly operated funds by "mismanagement, lack of know-how, waste, extravagance, nepotism, a lack of criteria for sound operation." They cited not only neglect of actuarial and investment principles in setting up welfare plans, but also "an almost complete lack of routine accounting to the beneficiaries." They also criticized plans that invested as much as 100% of union welfare and pension funds in the stock of a company with which the union bargained...
...with its NATO allies in talking disarmament with Russia, it still insists on the points of principle and procedure that would make U.S.-Russian disarmament a two-sided proposition; 2) the U.S., in its determination to match and surpass the Soviets in the missile race, can not afford to neglect such equally important phases of the cold war as foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade. The decisions of the NATO conference, said Dulles, add up "to quite a lot, assuming, of course, that they are carried out with vigor...
Disarmament. "The NATO Council will neglect no possibility of restricting armaments within the limits imposed by security . . . We state our willingness to promote, preferably within the framework of the United Nations, any negotiations with the Soviet Union likely to lead to implementation of disarmament proposals...
...prosecution and defense wound up their case, Feuillet's icy calm cracked in a flood of tears. Last week he was found guilty of "gross neglect" and "unscrupulous" behavior, sentenced to the maximum penalty under French law: two years in prison and a million francs ($2,500) fine. To the Stalinon victims and their families, the court awarded $1,533,000 in damages, but they were not likely to collect: both Feuillet and the owner of the pharmaceutical firm that manufactured Stalinon deny that they have the money...
Horace Mann Bond, Negro educator and author, last night sharply criticized our educational system for its neglect of gifted children from low economic and social backgrounds...