Word: neglectment
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...Governor Rockefeller should have gone to Attica. The gesture might or might not have made a difference, the commission said, but "where state neglect was a major contributing factor to the uprising," the report said, "the Governor should not have committed the state's armed forces without first appearing on the scene and satisfying himself that there was no other alternative...
Many of his suits are based on various state and federal laws that forbid dredging and filling operations in tidal lands without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. Though tides wash over almost all of the mangrove swamps, developers often neglect to get such a permit; then Matthews sues, sometimes with strange results. In 1970, for instance, the Lutgert Construction Co. started a giant beachfront development involving the dredging and filling of 1.65 million cu. yds. of tidal lands in Naples. Matthews began writing protest letters in all directions and finally got the Corps of Engineers to demand...
...abruptly shucked its year-old policy of "benign neglect" of American currency abroad last week. It did so by permitting the Federal Reserve Board to go into the international money market to help raise the value of the dollar, and by serving notice that it would bolster its currency against further devaluation. This complex maneuver signaled a timely break with former Treasury Secretary John Connally's hard line of economic nationalism and a step by the U.S. toward greater cooperation with its trading partners in seeking to ease world money problems...
This tranquil resignation is strongly contrasted with the harried, impatient, worrisome lives of their children and grand-children. One son's profession as neighborhood doctor forces him to neglect his family, the Tokyo daughter is so stingy that she begrudges her parents every bite they eat, while a total lack of traditional calm surfaces in the grandson who throws temper-tantrums whenever he is crossed...
...school provides a better environment for poor children than the streets or even the home. The Moores argue that except in serious cases of neglect, a young child separated from his mother and enrolled in school is "vulnerable to mental and emotional problems that will affect his learning, motivation and behavior...