Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the new Turkish republic of Kemal Ataturk took over from the moribund Ottoman Empire after World War I, the ancient glories of Constantinople were already flaking away in a slow death of peeling paint, collapsed masonry, commercial clutter and neglect. Nobody much cared. The fashion then was to lavish attention on the bustling new inland capital of Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing...
...textbooks are largely based on physics as it was known 50 years ago. Though new knowledge is added in revised editions, it is merely tacked onto basic material that is still out of date. The books overemphasize practical applications, concentrate on macrophysics, such as Archimedes' principle, to the neglect of microphysics, which has become all-important with increased knowledge of the atom. By fall, Zacharias hopes to have ready the first part of an experimental textbook that will concentrate on basic laws and include the major discoveries of the last few years. For especially interested students, Laura Fermi, widow...
Down Tools & Vodka. In the next six years, Victoria fell into neglect, 15% of the cultivatable land was not used, farmers spent more time on their tiny home plots, and debts accumulated...
...Says the A.M.A. Code of Ethics, as recently revised (TIME, June 17): "A physician may choose whom he will serve. In an emergency, however, he should render service to the best of his ability. Having undertaken the care of a patient, he may not neglect him." Regarding payment, the code says: "His fee should be commensurate with the services rendered and the patient's ability...
Today's rivalry for Arab leadership is in many respects frankly unequal. After almost four centuries of Ottoman misrule and neglect, Iraq counts fewer than 6,000,000 inhabitants; Egypt has more than 22 million. Egypt is Mediterranean, with a long record of Western influence; Iraq still feels the strong pull of its tribal past...