Word: neglectment
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April, then, marked a decided shift in Harvard attitude toward the City-recognizing it, almost for the first time, as a subject which merited some attention. It was a beginning, one which can either be carried further with appropriate changes in University priorities or be allowed to lapse through neglect...
...convention adjourned, incoming President Dr. Gerald Dorman, 65, said: "The medical profession can no longer tolerate a medical society that concentrates on the private interests of itself and its members to the neglect of the problems of health care for all citizens." The A.M.A. will continue to fight to keep the Government out of medicine. Members proposed a medical plan to be administered by business and the A.M.A...
Supporters of sex courses include an impressive variety of medical, religious and governmental groups. While they are in agreement that the basic responsibility for teaching children about sex rests with parents, many educators add that too many parents have abdicated their responsibilities, because of incompetence or neglect. Answering persistent complaints that the courses prematurely draw attention to sex, Dr. Calderone points out: "Sex is so intrusive and our culture is so permeated with sexual messages that planned and relevant sex-education programs are vital now." As for Parsons' argument about the latency period, she argues that...
...that Presidents Grant and Eisenhower passed through the Point, but there were also artists, scientists and businessmen. George Goethals built the Panama Canal, Henry du Pont became an industrialist, and Robert Wood became president of Sears, Roebuck. Edgar Allan Poe, on the other hand, was court-martialed for "gross neglect of duty," and James Whistler failed his chemistry exam. "If silicon were a gas," he said later, "I would be a major general today...
...still is the Administration's failure to communicate with Republicans in Congress. Stories, some apocryphal, some true, are making the rounds about urgent telephone calls to the White House that go unanswered for days or weeks, or for good. There seems to be no ideological bias to the neglect, but Republican liberals are the most upset. Democrats, of course, were never enchanted with Nixon; so they could scarcely be characterized as disenchanted now. Nonetheless, there is a growing feeling that the President is a man who bends under pressure. Many were confirmed in this view when Everett Dirksen...