Word: neglects
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when HUD auditors did a spot check, they found one repairman catnapping and another washing his car. The price of such neglect is staggering. When the public housing program began in 1937, it was envisioned as a pay-as-you-go system...
Your report on hot lines for latchkey children [Dec. 19] gives the impression that it is all right to leave children without sitters as long as there is a phone service the youngster can call for help. On the contrary, this is child neglect. Nine-year-olds have not yet developed the ability to respond correctly to the various emergencies they may face...
Almost without exception, African governments have allowed a crucial part of their colonial inheritance-the infrastructure of roads, railways, cities and towns built by Europeans-to deteriorate. In Dar es Salaam, the once attractive capital of Tanzania, years of post-colonial neglect have left their ravages. Pavements are cracked and unrepaired. Manhole covers have disappeared and not been replaced. Buildings are unpainted and grimy. In many areas, garbage is no longer collected; thin wisps of pungent smoke curl up through the palm trees from burning piles of refuse...
...most other countries, the problem has been outright neglect of agriculture in favor of more glamorous industrial development. As population growth and urbanization have surged out of control, the plight of rural areas has worsened. Often the state pays artificially low prices for farm commodities in order to finance urban-development schemes and to lower prices for people in the cities. One result: the importation of food has tripled in Africa during the past decade. Nigeria, which was once largely self-sufficient, spends $2 billion a year on imported food. In terms of per capita income and the availability...
Both Mr. Blinken and Mr. Hirschorn have, throughout 1983, displayed a tendency to neglect these facts in favor of emulating the trendy style of other, better known music publications. As my new year's thought to Mr. Blinken and Mr. Hirschorn, I wish them the best of luck in avoiding the use of cliches in their writing. Kenneth Rethfield...