Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that Commonwealth voters could veto a disposal site in Massachusetts has outraged negotiators from other states in the compact, says Judy A. Shope, a specialist on radioactive waste for the League of Women Voters. Shope explains that compact members feel the law enables Massachusetts to shirk its responsibilities under the pact...
...Manville Corporation has until this week to present a plan which would shift its burden of payment of health claims to the government. The corporation could declare bankruptcy without ever shutting its doors, and continue to shirk all responsibility for the health of its workers...
UNDYING LOVE for the music is what makes Dancin' in the Street! click. The fidelity comes through in the energy expended on stage, and in the banter sprinkled throughout. It also comes through in the audience where adults often shirk their best theater behavior to shake it in their seats...
Most faculty members engaged in long-term, high-involvement consulting probably share Cantley's sentiments, and concerned scholars envision numerous conflicts of commitment resulting from such corporate loyalties. A faculty consultant whose firm is sinking in a sea of competition might shirk his academic responsibilities in order to spend more time in his industrial lab. The professor might assign his seniors and graduate students theses relating to his business rather than University research. More likely, such consulting relationships would intensify competition between labs whose heads are affiliated with different firms...