Word: neglectment
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...assistance with concrete, tangible help was the Soviet Union, and I am not saying this as a Communist, but as a Polish patriot. Now Poland ranks tenth in the world in terms of industrial output. But at the same time our country has a lot of shortcomings and some neglect in its infrastructure. We are now working to overcome these difficulties...
...this Age of the Blahs, many thousands of Americans are finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer...
Gross Abuse. In adoptions, decrees should be final and unconditional, except in cases of gross neglect or abuse. From the child's point of view, the authors argue, a struggle between natural and adoptive parents is not a dilemma; his "real" parents are the ones who raised him. The authors also insist on quick disposition of cases, since delays are disruptively long in terms of a child's sense of time...
...authorized this bizarre policy of revision and neglect was one of the three executors of Smith's estate, Art Critic Clement Greenberg. About ten sculptures underwent change at Greenberg's whim, some irrevocably. Flat paint can be resprayed, but some of Smith's polychrome works were painted in a splashy, brushy manner-a handwriting that can no more be restored than the excited scribbles he made with a grinder on the skin of his stainless-steel pieces...
...kouros was an idealized version of the male in ancient Greek sculpture practiced in Sounion and that a gramivore ate grain? The frustration is good in a way, too, because it makes one realize how immense our history actually is and how much of it we've come to neglect or take for granted...