Word: neglections
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...thorn in the side of educational policy makers. If educators support funding for academic programs tailored to gifted students, they perpetuate the unjustified, though in most cases understandable, stigma of elitism surrounding such programs and risk alienating the parents of less talented children. Conversely, if national policy makers neglect gifted children at the expense of the majority, those who have the money go to private schools, while those who cannot, become bored, unchallenged, and fall through the cracks of the school system...
when HUD auditors did a spot check, they found one repairman catnapping and another washing his car. The price of such neglect is staggering. When the public housing program began in 1937, it was envisioned as a pay-as-you-go system...
...continuing occupation is having a profound impact on the Israeli forces. Some high-ranking Israeli officers, including Major General Yossi Peled, argue that this enormous burden has caused the I.D.F. to neglect its training...
...restraint was admirably diplomatic, considering the provocation. The day before, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Lawrence Eagleburger had denounced Western Europe for its selfish neglect of the Atlantic Alliance. As he told a foreign policy conference in Washington, "We have seen a more and more inner-directed Western Europe, more and more concerned with its own problems, more and more concerned with its economic difficulties, less and less in time with the U.S. It is ever more difficult to get Western Europe to look outside its own borders." He described Western Europe's attitude as "almost a contemplation...
Both Mr. Blinken and Mr. Hirschorn have, throughout 1983, displayed a tendency to neglect these facts in favor of emulating the trendy style of other, better known music publications. As my new year's thought to Mr. Blinken and Mr. Hirschorn, I wish them the best of luck in avoiding the use of cliches in their writing. Kenneth Rethfield...