Word: neglectment
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...were possible to regain our nuclear superiority, but they soon recoiled before the twin obstacles of technology and cost. Liberals, on the other hand, were reluctant to draw the consequences for local defense from the strategic parity they were both advocating and accelerating. Both schools tended to neglect the need for strengthening regional or conventional forces...
Most of the literature of Watergate-a cottage industry- treats it as a personal aberration of Nixon's, as if there I had been no surrounding circumstances. In truth, Watergate is unthinkable apart from Nixon's driven personality. But historians who neglect the destructive impact of the war in Viet Nam on American politics, spirit and unity will misunderstand Watergate...
...instance, the local Mine Safety and Health Administration inspection staff has dropped from 33 to eleven, and of the county's 91 mines due to receive a quarterly inspection last spring, only 62 were visited. U.M.W. Safety Officer Donald Fleming detects a more insidious form of neglect. "The word is out," he says. "If you're a mine operator, it's not too hard to read between the lines: the mine inspector is someone you can ignore...
...social invitation by the General Secretary could not be refused. Our minds addled by a 15-hour plane trip and our bellies distended by a Russian dinner, we sped to the Kremlin. Brezhnev received us in what looked like a Churchill jumpsuit in sky blue. He did not neglect to remind me that...
...Hawk missile, and added that the Reagan Administration was prepared to consider a Jordanian request to purchase advanced F-16 fighter planes. The King seemed interested. The suggestion obviously displeased the Israelis, who were not on Weinberger's itinerary this time, but it undoubtedly assuaged any feelings of neglect that Hussein may have been harboring. The Secretary's trip may not have produced any tangible diplomatic agreements, but as an exercise in fence mending, it appears to have been a modest success...