Word: neglecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...image he has tried to create: experienced, responsible, free of zealous partisanship, the candidate of national unity. On a foray into the Northwest last week, he refused to make a formal declaration of his candidacy. Duty forbade, he explained: as an avowed candidate he would have to neglect his Senate duties. But at a political session in an Idaho Falls hotel, he leveled with an anxious admirer. "We don't want to bet on a horse that's going to stay in the paddock." the politician observed. "Are you a candidate?" Replied L.B.J.: "You're damned right...
Almost every politician in Washington last week qualified, in a strictly myopic sense, as "forward-looking." All eyes were fixed on the coming presidential campaign, to the neglect of a pile of pressing U.S. problems. In Congress, with two-thirds of the session already frittered away, Republicans and Democrats scarcely pretended to legislate, turned earnestly instead to making issues and polishing images for election-year politicking. After thrusting forward its hastily contrived, budget-busting alternative to the Democrats' plan for medical care of the aged, the Administration saw its compassion for ailing oldsters overshadowed by the Democratic Congress...
Henry IV, Part II follows Part I into the Phoenix Theater with much the same general success. It is far less often performed than what is popularly regarded as its better half, but it ill deserves neglect. Beyond its own rich claim to recognition, it forms with Part I something vastly and variedly Shakespearean. The two Parts, moreover, are in organic relationship and poignant contrast. And though there is considerably less history in Part II, there is actually more history in the making...
...come now. With religion tipping the balance in the coming presidential election, how could you neglect mention of Pat Nixon's persuasion in an otherwise very good article [Feb. 29]? In what religion was she baptized and what religion does she and her family now profess...
Jaspan's basic thesis is that white collar crime is largely caused by corporate neglect of employees' needs and morale and by poor management in general. The growing decentralization of U.S. business, he argues, has left too many top executives concerned only with profit-and-loss figures to the detriment of employee relations. Jaspan acknowledges that many thefts are hard to eliminate because of employees' money difficulties or personality problems (e.g., the unattractive sales clerk who stole for a trip to Bermuda to find romance). But he also points to the need for management to pay higher...