Word: neglectment
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While the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington might not have chosen bingo as a means to the native American dream, the Reagan Administration has reacted with benign neglect. Indeed, the enthusiasts among Indians sound like Reagan Republicans. "If anyone here is not working today," claims Barona Tribal Chairman Joe Welch, "it's because they don't want...
Navy Secretary John Lehman insists that he is trying hard to overcome the readiness neglect of the past ten years. The Carter Administration could put only six carriers to sea, he says, and the Navy now has 20% more combat-ready planes...
...will cease to exist at all on Nov. 29 unless some kind of renewal legislation is passed. On the House side, the Democratic majority passed a bill that would not only keep the commission alive but prevent the President from removing its members for any cause except malfeasance or neglect of duty. In the Senate, the G.O.P. majority began leaning toward a compromise that would expand the commission to eight members, keeping the present six and seating two of Reagan's nominees. Negotiations between even the Senate and the White House broke down, however, and Reagan acted to force...
...because of neglect, that one tiny crack has grown into a major headache for Harvard, as many of those so-called "fins" crucial to holding up the building have started to crumble...
...inveighing, though with affection, against God. Why so much, Gottenyu? If He wanted to teach His servant a lesson for some reason, some cause - the nature of His nature - to teach him, say, for reasons of his weakness, his pride, perhaps, during his years of prosperity, his frequent neglect of God - to give him a little lesson, why then any of the tragedies that had happened to him, any one would have sufficed to chasten him. But all together - the loss of both his children, his means of livelihood, Fanny's health and his - that was too much...