Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should have. But Ike often carried his feelings so far as to remain above the political battles that are the fabric of positive governmental action. The Democratic comeback in Congress in 1954 and the Democratic landslide in the 1958 elections were among the results of his neglect of practical politics and working politicians...
...nation of traders that they must export or perish. It is a lesson Britons know well, and on cue they burst into selfcriticism. Critics cited examples of British firms that still often give Continental customers specifications of products in feet instead of meters. Others complained that some British companies neglect to provide service for their products after they sell them, as their German rivals do. Still others told of Dutch and German firms that snatched contracts away from Britons by promising months earlier delivery on heavy machinery orders. At one exporters' conference, Peter Tennant, overseas director of the Federation...
...National Security Council (thus rating a special military aide), as chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council and the President's Government Contracts Committee. He will attend Cabinet meetings and will cicerone the congressional leaders at their weekly strategy meetings with President Kennedy. And, not to neglect the field of foreign affairs, Johnson has been conferring with Secretaries-designate Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara for briefings on the international and military situations. In Johnson's future, according to Washington reports, will be early official trips to Brazil and Russia...
...planes are all a part of a speeded-up program to put U.S. air-traffic control on a modern basis. After years of congressional neglect and feeble leadership in the Civil Aeronautics Board, the U.S. lagged so badly in airway control that the jet age has caught the nation dangerously unprepared. Until electronic devices are perfected to control the airways, the FAA must depend on humans to close the gap and to try to eliminate such tragedies as the collision over New York a fortnight ago (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...carefully states its limitations and thus avoids at least two matters of great concern. Whether federal aid has "distorted the basic function of the universities" by its emphasis on science is a question considered "beyond the report's mission." As much as humanists and social scientists complain about their neglect, there has yet to be a clear, sensible appraisal of federal aid and its relative support for each of the three areas of study. It is hoped that the science report will inspire a similar examination of this related matter, one that the current report says "deserves careful attention...