Word: neglectment
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Though England has had "day hospitals" since the 1950s, they are a relatively recent innovation in the U.S. Adult day care centers grew out of disillusionment with nursing homes, many of which are known for rising costs, all but endless waiting lists and neglect of patients. In 1974 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare added an incentive by agreeing to channel Medicaid funds toward programs designed to take the place of nursing homes. Massachusetts, California and Georgia led the way. Within four years some 275 adult day care facilities had been established. Today there are about 800 such centers...
...willingness to forget about El Salvador makes sense; it fits with everything one would expect from the historical record of our foreign policy. And the forgetfulness of the left, or liberals, of the Democratic party, is not really shocking, for it also matches historical patterns of laziness and neglect. The second phemonenon--the amnesia of the left--will have to be cured before the first--the government's moral and strategic blindness--can be cured. Until it does, the cycle of crisis-alarm-forgetfulness will continue. Fifty-four weeks is a damn short stretch of time...
...siding or a particular color may be selected because "it is the fashion of the neighborhood." Some house renovation, however, does result from neighborhood pressure. When people feel the neighborhood is threatened by nearby empty lots, burned buildings, abandoned cars, cratered streets and sidewalks, they become afraid of further neglect. Cajoling a negligent neighbor to repair or refurbish becomes a matter of self-defense. But much remodeling, good or bad, also is done be cause the family cannot afford to move or hates to move. Amid the anonymity of modern city life, the idea of neighborhood, particularly ethnic neighborhood...
Such expenses should not be passed on to tenants, Turk says, if they were caused by neglect in past years. "I think we may be on a collision course with Harvard's 'five-year-plan'" for improvements, Turk said, adding that the HTU drive would center on an effort to force the Rent Board to reinterpret its own guidelines...
...operas, at least: "I think I am a good opera composer. There have been some 3,000 performances of The Mother of Us All. It makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced a Thomson opera, and the composer is puzzled by the neglect. But in the long run he is philosophical: "I agree with one French critic who said that I am essentially a predecessor." Of what? That is for his successors to decide. "Some artists close things," says Thomson. "I am the kind who opens things...