Word: neglect
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Outsiders who have followed the case are similarly divided. Doctors acknowledge that they occasionally practice "judicious neglect," deciding, for example, against reviving a terminal cancer patient who has just gone into cardiac arrest or performing corrective surgery on a hopelessly retarded infant with a serious heart condition as well. Indeed, many doctors admit that the withholding of extraordinary medical care is a not uncommon practice at both ends of the life spectrum. Dr. Raymond Duff, for instance, revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1974 that of 299 infants who died over a 2½-year period...
...First they said they hadn't considered me because I entered the race too late. Then, when they drew up the campaign literature, they left me out again," he says. Combined with his status as a relative unknown in city politics, CC '75's neglect, he said has made it "hard to get the message to people...
...less clearly defined groups, such as "workers," or "blue collar employees." Strategically, the state fosters the growth of groups small enough to accomodate (imagine the costs if the government actually wanted to help out all workers) and small enough to feel the benefits of a concession. Glazer and Moynihan neglect to mention the relative ease with which a state can co-opt and control an oppressed and potentially troublesome group once they are convinced they must fight for their own sliver of the pie rather than join ranks with other hungry people...
...certain sense correct. It's misdirected critiscism to call even Unheavenly City a racist book. In the book Banfield chides massive welfare spending programs as false cures of urban ills and proposes an ideology to back up Daniel Patrick Moynihan's theory of "benign neglect" towards racial problems...
...Years of Neglect. Reaction from OPEC-nation delegates was quick and strong. On the second day of the session, Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amouzegar answered that "the substantive issue is not whether the oil price has gone up too rapidly; the real issue is whether or not the world is willing to realize that the era of cheap and abundant energy is over." He then added, sarcastically: "The developed world felt easy about shrugging off responsibility for years of neglect, inaction, inconsistent policies and economic mismanagement, which have placed so heavy a burden on the world economy...