Word: remissness
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...said that he had "no recollection" of having seen the papers. Last week, despite deriding the idea of using them, he conceded that it was possible he might have passed some papers to Baker without reading them. But he said if Baker did acquire Carter documents, Baker was "remiss" in not telling higher campaign officials about them...
...used to shield the council of blame. True, a state law requires the unusually high number of seven councilors to pass zoning changes. But the nine councilors were elected to represent and reconcile the diverse interests of the people of this city --a mandate they have been clearly remiss on in this case...
...willing to take--or place--the blame for the problems before the completion of the report by Thompson and Lichtner Co., the Boston consulting firm hired by Radcliffe last spring. But Horner insisted last week that "nobody has been remiss in judgment" regarding the leakage problems...
However, Horner said yesterday that "nobody has been remiss in judgement regarding the leakage problems. She added that the situation was so unusual that the original contractors and experts failed to realize at first the need for the structural analysis now being conducted...
...Bernard L . Towers, co-director of trhe CCLA program in Medicine, Law and Human Values, said recentrly, "There is ano question that the medical profession is remiss in policing itslef. There is a lot that goes on that people turn a blind eye to and a great many people don't want to get involved" At least some leaders of the medical profession are tryhing to change that...