Word: neglectment
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Unfortunately, Harvard has not yet demonstrated a similar commitment to other departments that could use more support, not neglect. The linguistics department suffers a similar shortage in tenured faculty, and boasts a similarly small but devoted--and now disgruntled--undergraduate body. Linguistics deserves a similar rejuvenation. Instead, the University seems content to let it flounder...
...Professor Stager's lack of management, lack of communication with the staff, total neglect of fundraising and other duties expected of a director contributed greatly to the difficulties which the museum faces," said Monday's letter to Knowles...
True to form, Colwin's hero and heroine are just regular folk. They don't want to cause any trouble. Although carefully crafted, they certainly don't break the mold of characterization. Teddy plunges periodically into brooding funks stemming from the deep spring of childhood neglect and a broken family; otherwise, he reassures his wife with his deliberate, undaunted demeanor. Jane Louise gnaws rabbitlike at her anxieties, the classic neurotic New York...
...unusual for courts to rescue children from their own homes, but their parents are usually charged with gross neglect or abuse. Tanner, who plans to appeal, is losing her daughter for doing something that is perfectly legal, even if it is frowned upon by the Surgeon General. Hers is one of a growing number of cases, mainly involving children in divorce custody suits, in which judges have prohibited parents from smoking around kids who are sensitive to tobacco. Legal Times reported this month that courts in at least 11 states have dealt with the issue, almost always siding with...
...custody battle to defend children against secondhand smoke. "I am certainly not suggesting that every time a parent lights up in the same room, we're going to cry child abuse," he says. "But the same protection will eventually be extended to children in ongoing marriages through child-neglect proceedings." Most public health officials share Banzhaf's exasperation. Says Dr. Ronald Davis, medical director of the Michigan public health department: "When I see parents smoking around their kids, I have the same reaction as I do toward parents with a carful of kids who aren't wearing seat belts: 'What...