Word: neglects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those horror stories of waste by the Pentagon and fraud by defense contractors--the $400 hammers, the $600 toilet covers--have taken a toll on the national consensus for reversing what Reagan has called the "decade of neglect" that sapped U.S. military strength in the 1970s. For the first time since Reagan launched his $1.5 trillion defense buildup five years ago, polls show sharply declining support for increased military spending. In Congress, deficit cutters in both parties are arguing that the Pentagon cannot be exempted from the budget ax. And two days after the President spoke last week, a commission...
...might go so far as to say that history--as it is taught in its traditional mode--ignores half of the population. Political history must, by definition, focus on men because until recently women did not have much of a political voice. However, social and economic historians who neglect women have no such excuse...
Distinguishing women's history as a separate discipline may be a necessary strategy for beginning the long task of rewriting history, of inscribing in it the voices and actions of women. However, that strategy is as dangerous as it is necessary; it may invite traditional historians to continue to neglect the role of women, to "leave women's history to the women...
Before an audience of 100, Coffin attacked the neglect of "subsistence rights"--to housing, food, and education-in America's emphasis on freedoms-to speech, assembly, and the like...
DEMOCRACY IS ALL the rage in Washington this week. Faced with a phenomenal popular revolt against longtime U.S. client Ferdinand Marcos, the Reagan Administration reluctantly adopted an alledgedly interventionist policy. Yet it is in spite of American policy--long one of malign neglect--that the Philippine people have finally won their freedom...