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...just 7% in 1979. There is a price for this, of course, and Britain pays it in the form of inflation, currently at 10.9%; unemployment, at 6% and rising; and disrepair in the social-safety net that Labour had so carefully woven. Roads and railways are showing signs of neglect, homelessness has visibly increased, and Thatcher's critics charge that her kind of individualism implies greed and selfishness...
...everyone buys this theory. Some complain that debt is more of a distraction than a disciplinarian. Managers can become so absorbed with cutting costs and staying one step ahead of creditors that they often neglect day-to-day operations. Some companies, including Harcourt, appoint executives whose sole duty is to manage debt. Says Peter Jovanovich: "The Superman approach doesn't work. If the CEO tries to do it all, deal with the bankers and run the business, he'll probably do it all badly...
Those permitted to be born may not survive into adulthood because of deliberate neglect. Studies show that female children in India and Bangladesh are breast-fed for a shorter period and given less nourishing meals than males. In rural China when food is scarce, anthropologists report, girls are more likely to suffer from chronic malnutrition than their brothers...
AIDS still rages as problem because our government did not care about the gay men who were dying Only after 12,000 people were sick and Rock Hudson and died did president Reagan even mention the disease, and then he went on to neglect the findings of his own Presidential AIDS Commission...
While some students at Brandeis have called Alexander's departure a symbol of administrative neglect of minority concerns, Burg said that the university intended to find a replacement to fill the position quickly, despite a hiring freeze. "We do have a commitment," he said...