Word: remiss
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...epicenter stood a somber and shaken Richard Nixon, facing one of his gravest crises. Forced by events to concede that his earlier blanket denials of White House involvement had been wrong, he finally dropped the pretense of being untouched by it all. Either he had been inexcusably remiss in not pressing an earlier, deeper investigation of the matter, or he had been amazingly naive in trusting his aides' protestations of innocence?despite repeated evidence in news reports to the contrary?or he had been a willing party to their deception. Either way, he could not escape heavy responsibility. Despite...
...Students lack the skills and habits necessary for the exercise of scholarly authority and they thus have no right on the executive committee of the Afro-American Studies Department nor on that of any other department in this university. Faculty legislation on reforms in Afro-American Studies would be remiss without this item. Indeed none of the foregoing items of reform should be left to ad hoc arrangements; they should be entrenched in legislation. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...think the courts ought to treat his as a matter of top priority," Burg said. "In an election year the state courts would be remiss if they didn't expedite this issue...
However understandable such environmental crusades may be, and however remiss the utilities may seem in retrospect, the battles hamper power production at the very time of the growing shortage. Under the Clean Air Act of 1970, the utilities will have to meet tough air-quality standards by 1975, and the cost of those standards will help to triple the price of electricity by 1990. Nonetheless, the Federal Power Commission predicts that the utilities must build about 300 new power plants generating 910 million kw. to meet the anticipated needs of 1990. The expected cost: $500 billion...
There were many Alwyns, and probably none of us knew all of them. Alwyn the critic could sift a ton of aesthetic sludge and produce a column and a half of buoyant wit, pleasure and wisdom. It is stultifying to honor a man with lists, but it would be remiss not to mention his TIME review of Nabokov's Lolita, a model of incisiveness and insight; a brief and scintillating piece on Henry Miller that tells all anyone will ever need to know about that writer; and a short story called Something for Bradshaw's Tombstone, which prefigures...