Word: neglectment
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Brown has a point. The Carter Administration cannot be blamed for a neglect of the U.S. armed forces that goes back more than a decade. But it would be wrong to ignore the generals and admirals who are sounding serious warnings about our defense forces at a time when national policy is going to require that those forces be ready to fight...
...suburbanites settled in to split levels in New Jersey, Westchester, and Long Island, they left behind neighborhoods eventually inhabited by much poorer people. Falling rent forced landlords to neglect and then abandon buildings. Vandals ripped anything of value from the tenements or just torched them. Arson became a carefully planned and profitable activity as landlords burned their buildings to collect fire insurance, making the area charred and hollow...
...deaf-mutes, a school to preserve traditional handicrafts, technical schools with new dormitories so students from remote villages could attend, an experimental farm to raise improved crops and livestock. In 1966, when a ferryboat to Athens sank in a bad storm, drowning more than 200 people, Eirinaios denounced the neglect of safety on the aging boats. He also rallied small shareholders to establish their own well-run ferry line. People's ferries have since been started on four other islands...
Back home many of his projects were dying of neglect. His parishioners kept praying for his return. Then in 1979 his former see at Kisamos fell vacant. The bishops of Crete, who, with approval of the Patriarchate, elect their fellow bishops, promised that they would reinstate Eirinaios. But last June they chose another man. Two hours later the people seized the episcopal residence in Kisamos and threatened to demolish the building if anyone but Eirinaios tried to take office...
...administrators responsible for employee relations should not neglect the status of Harvard's workers for the next three years. In times of severe economic uncertainty, it would benefit all involved to keep in mind the interests of the school's support services and to deal responsibly with the unions over the contracts' duration...