Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should also beware of the high pressure sales tactics of CompUSA sales clerks. They're always eager to show off the flashy cases and graphics of their systems but usually neglect to tell you about the machine's limitation unless you ask pointed questions. Given Comp-USA's distance and poor selection, you can do better staying on this side of the river...
...hundreds of "house churches" and demolishing property. It also expressed concern over heavily restrictive legislation proposed in Russia, which Boris Yeltsin vetoed today, citing constitutional concerns. Ostling notes that one of the reasons behind the Christian effort is a belief among them that the U.S. government has tended to neglect the tribulations of Christianity's followers over the years. "The groups that pushed for this report would grant that other religious groups, such as Buddhists, are having a hard time but nonetheless have received regular attention from the State Department over the years. They would argue Christians have...
...insist that sicknesses be treated with prayer alone is stubborn willfulness; to impose such conditions on children should be considered criminal. But Pennsylvania, where the Nixon children died, and 45 other states have religious exemptions in their child-abuse and -neglect laws, denying the 14th Amendment right, equal protection under the law, to children of members of the Faith Tabernacle, the Christian Science Church and various other sects. When child-protection groups have petitioned legislatures to remove these exemptions, the legislators have bowed to church lobbying and refused. If parents of children dead for lack of medical care have "suffered...
...surprise, the program opened with Goode accompanying Upshaw in Schubert songs. Either out of neglect or, more amusingly, as a nod to the super exposure of such music in this eternal Schubertiade of a year, the program notes made no mention of the five featured lieder. All from the last six years of Schubert's life, the songs in this set must have been chosen out of a desire for heavy and contant emotional contrast...
...agents. Vicki Weaver and her teenage son were shot to death; her husband Randy Weaver collected $3 million in a wrongful-death suit and became a martyr in the militants' crusade against encroaching law-enforcement agencies. Six officials connected with the showdown were disciplined for "inadequate performance, improper judgment, neglect of duty," even though investigators found no actual misconduct. That might not have gone down so badly had Freeh not promoted as his No. 2 the supervisor of the whole operation, Larry Potts. Only when Justice Department officials intervened with news that Potts and his headquarters aides were under criminal...