Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generally wind up sleeping on corridor floors, or two or three to a bed. The hospitals are no better than sheds, rife with epidemics. Water and electricity are limited to a few hours a day. Some of the injured wait up to a year for surgery. Through neglect, there are almost twice as many amputees among South Vietnamese civilians as there were among American soldiers in World...
...death will hardly mean the end of Communist activity in Latin America. There are still deep-rooted conditions of poverty, neglect and hopelessness that subversives can feed on and exploit. But his departure from the scene takes away much of the mystery and romanticism that has been associated with that subversion...
...matching, on a sliding scale, payments made by the states for the medical care of the indigent-meaning essentially those receiving welfare payments. The law went further, enabling states to create a new class of "medically indigent"-those able to feed, house and clothe themselves, but who would neglect their medical and dental care because of difficulty in meeting even routine bills and who would be pauperized by the costs of a major illness...
...wears braces on his teeth and still speaks in a boyish treble, but all it took to send him scampering from Columbus to Chicago's bohemian Old Town district was the prospect of military school. Joe, 17, blames his run from Tampa, Fla. to Atlanta on parental neglect. "I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life," says Joe, the youngest member of Atlanta's small hippie colony. "This is more like a family than you could find, really, because there are no hang...
From sheer neglect or indifferences, rate schedules and basic exemptions in estate and gift tax laws have remained unchanged in 25 years. In the meantime, complexities and inequities have cerpt into the system so that the present structure places the most importance on form and timing in the transference of property...