Word: neglected
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...wouldn't dare propose cuts this close to an election, even though debt will eventually force the government to either raise taxes or cut public services or both," he says. The incumbent Labour Party has already been projecting itself as the party that saved the NHS from years of neglect under Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. But David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, has pledged to "ring-fence" NHS funding and make cuts elsewhere...
...likely to be bad news for Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis' already embattled center-right government, which is clinging to a slender single-vote majority in parliament. Already opposition parties on the right and left, as well as the national media, have begun accusing the country's leaders of neglect and incompetence. "Disorganization, indifference, criminal negligence give the final blow to Attica," declared the headline in the leftist daily Eleftherotypia, over the image of a blazing hillside...
...governments accountable to the public. "People assume the elders will tell the young how to vote," says 38-year-old Jahid Mohseni, CEO of the media organization Moby Group. "Young people still respect their elders, but they have developed a capacity to think for themselves. And the candidates that neglect that vote may be in for a surprise." (See art depicting war-torn Afghanistan...
...politician] representing those estates who didn't grow up on them, doesn't know them well and visits like a political tourist." Mainstream parties have "got to re-engage the population," he says. "You can't write the people off who voted BNP as all being Nazis. It's neglect...
Farm workers say a key problem with the current regulation is that workers have no right to a rest break until they recognize they are experiencing symptoms - and this is often too late to prevent illness. "The evidence points to neglect not ignorance as the cause of farm worker deaths," said UFW President Arturo Rodriguez. He said the union had been in negotiations with state officials to improve the current regulation but with temperatures in the San Joaquin Valley now averaging 100 degrees they cannot afford to wait. "This lawsuit ensures that the governor knows we mean business," Rodriguez said...