Word: remiss
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...Carter moved to end the meeting, O'Neill broke in. "Wait a minute, Mr. President," he said. "I think we'd be terribly remiss if we don't talk about some package to stimulate the economy." "You're right," Carter said cautiously. "We've got to have some kind of action to give confidence to the people." But he did not endorse either a jobs program...
...jurors viewed Edelin's race as a crime in itself. Furthermore the jury dealt with the judge's instructions haphazardly, substituting, for his stipulation that it must find Edelin guilty of "wanton and reckless" conduct in order to convict, its own speculation that he might have been remiss in checking to see if the fetus were alive upon removal, and was hence guilty...
Power Seats. Misjudging the power of the auto-safety and environmental advocates in Washington was not the industry's only fumble. It was also remiss in not recognizing and responding fast enough to the public's growing preference for small cars. Between 1965 and 1973, sales of small imported cars jumped 200%, to 1.7 million. This evidence of the change in tastes was later reinforced by the popularity of such subcompacts as the Ford Pinto, the Chevrolet Vega, the American Motors Gremlin and the Dodge Colt. American Motors Chairman Roy Chapin read the signs astutely and steered...
...officials admit that the agency was remiss in not having all its high officials make full financial disclosures. That step, the GAO says, would have revealed that 19 of the agency's 125 top employees held stock in gas-producing firms under FPC jurisdiction, including Exxon, Texaco and Tenneco. Moreover, seven of these officials were administrative-law judges who preside over cases that come before the FPC, and in at least one case, a judge apparently presided over a hearing involving a company in which he held stock...
Claudio is an ordinary, weak man-in-the-street, caught with his pants down: he is just about the only believable person in the play. Shakespeare was remiss in giving him only a couple of lines in the second half of the work, and, when he finally turns up alive after being reported dead, in having him and his sister Isabella say nary a word to each other. In the present production, however, this is just as well. Richard Backus '67, who was so fine recently in the Harvard Summer School Repertory troupe's Ah. Wilderness! and in Promenade...