Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wondered: Do farmers talk about such things before they ride their tractors down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to complain that government cutbacks make it impossible for them to take their vacations in the Caribbean (or so our president says)? Would cowboys ever neglect a shootout at the O.K. Corral in order to debate the merits of seeing their reflection in lemon-scented, smoothly-polished table tops...
...accurate assessments. Antireligion and amorality have in fact been spreading in the public schools, he asserts, and "a majority of Americans are scandalized" by the apparent flouting of traditional values on television and in the press. Similarly, Michael Novak, the neoconservative Roman Catholic, says that the mass media so neglect the nation's deep-seated religious feelings that believers of all types "feel they live in a hostile culture...
...that's the case, the long-awaited appointment of permanent leadership could usher in a period of reform at the GSAS, which many professors say has suffered from neglect in recent years...
...climbing down from their sequestered cloisters to right this wrong is a noble one, it is not as accurate as it may appear. No doubt college presidents have known for years the types of abuses that have been so rampant. Yet they have maintained their distance, either out of neglect, boredom or the desire to enjoy the financial fruits of big time athletics...
...border area, is now virtually complete) and international condemnation of the U.S. and Israel. In a broader sense, the Shi'ites of Lebanon, newly radicalized by the violence that has plagued their country, particularly since the Israeli invasion of June 1982, are seeking a fairer shake after generations of neglect and discrimination by Lebanon's wealthier and more powerful Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. Beyond all that, the Shi'ite fanatical fringe, inspired by the example of the Iranian revolution, wants to destroy the last vestiges of Western "decadence" in the Islamic world, particularly the presence of the U.S., that...