Word: neglectment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authority seemed to be weakening a bit. Said Italy's Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, a steadfast Mattei supporter, at the closing session: "To realize these sources of wealth . . . asks the collaboration of all forces and all initiatives. The Italian government is hence pledged to friendly countries not to neglect exploitation of whatever resources exist in this country." To U.S. oilmen in Italy, it all had the sound of progress. Said one: "I still want to see some action before I get too enthusiastic. But the fact that he would even make such a speech is grounds for optimism...
...With only two weeks to prepare his cases for the new court term, George figured that opposing attorneys would expect him to ask for delays and would therefore neglect their own homework. He was right: when court opened, George was ready, and the others were not. In that term George handled more cases than any other Dooly County lawyer, won nearly all of them. Vienna's attorneys were delighted when, six years later, George took himself from competitive practice to run for prosecuting attorney of the Cordele judicial district. In 1912 he was appointed a district court judge, once...
...present neglect be corrected? Chemist Seaborg's suggestion: double the outlay for pure science. The resulting increase in scientific knowledge, he believes, would make a bigger basic research program "the greatest bargain the American people ever received...
...tour through the rich black earth district where quietly flows the Don, Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev noisily decreed a new purge for Russia's 94,000 collective farms. "We must declare war on neglect, mismanagement and irresponsibility," said Khrushchev. "Some tens of thousands of particularly experienced workers of party and government organizations" would soon replace those who would not "renounce the old ways." And how would these tens of thousands like being farmed out? Henceforth, said Khrushchev, "people should be judged not by their well-groomed appearance but by their knowledge of their jobs...
Armstrong Circle Theater offered a grim little farce called TV or Net TV. The plot line: when a group of suburban husbands feel abused because their wives and children neglect them to watch television, they cunningly arrange to botch the TV reception; but a few nights of listening to the incessant yammering of their TV-free families drive them to restore the status quo. Somewhere in this vicious circle the televiewer himself may well have felt tempted to risk the full fury of a family on the loose in preference to the typically bad TV farce represented...