Word: neglectment
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...Tizard, the father of radar and the government's chief science adviser between 1946 and 1952: "We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power, we shall soon cease to be a great nation." Britain, like the U.S. now, suffered from a profound neglect of its educational system. It was what one scientist called "an invisible crisis. Nothing dramatic is going to happen for years . . . Then we shall wake up and find, like the Venetians in the 17th century, that all that makes our living has slipped away...
Recent legislation on immigration reform will hopefully alleviate this problem. Maybe the new European Community will help encourage economic development in Ireland. But how long will it take to compensate for centuries of imperialist oppression and international neglect? These problems are probably far from the minds of this weekend's revelers, but they are an integral part of being Irish...
Although Rhew serves as a source of emotional strength for others, he regrets having to neglect his physical activity since coming to Harvard...
...presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy '48 spoke to an audience of medical students of "intolerable conditions...attributable to the neglect and indifference of men." One of the students challenged him: "Where are you going to get the money for these federally subsidized programs you're talking about...
Hall says that the consistent weakness of the department is a function of the University's traditions of hiring rather than of purposeful scheming on the part of administrators. "There are people who feel that purposeful neglect led to the decline of the department. But I believe it could have happened otherwise. I admit it does look suspicious but I don't subscribe to the theory of an explicit conspiracy...