Word: neglectment
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...provided levels of poverty in this country do not continue to grow and thereby feed crime--the number of criminals in the U.S. should soon decline along this demographic trend. The more prisons we build, the greater will be the temptation to imprison people for minor offenses or to neglect taking measures against the social causes of crime...
...increasing the number of prisoners? Although Texas and New Mexico have already passed legislation authorizing private prisons, no states are actually using them. However, private companies do operate alien detention centers (primarily for Haitians) for the federal government, and there have already been at least two instances of neglect and violence against prisoners that probably would have not have happened in state institutions...
...nine months of age because the iron in the yolk is poorly absorbed by babies and may interfere with the absorption of iron from other foods. The co-authors added and expanded sections on the role of fathers in childbirth, breast-feeding for working mothers, and child abuse and neglect. Spock, a ban-the-bomb advocate since 1962, included a personal note sternly urging parents to vote for candidates who favor a nuclear freeze...
...measures the degree of early infatuation and ultimate disappointment. With the passion of a lover betrayed, Schickel protests that celebrities in the arts "are used to simplify complex matters of the mind and spirit." We look at the face and ignore the work. Celebrities "subvert rationalism in politics." We neglect the issues and vote for the image most skillfully packaged on TV. In every department of life, celebrities are a "corruption," Schickel's label for the shallowness and glitz of late 20th century civilization. With considerable reason, he blames celebrities and the cameras without which they could not exist...
...museum officially reopened to the public but lacked sufficient funds to display its exhibits. As a result, the University closed the public galleries and rented most of the building's space to the Center for International Affairs. Despite financial neglect by the University, the museum continued to function on a research center for Semitic studies and its collections swelled with newfound materials from excavations in the Middle East...