And yet, given the clear and observable impact of AGOA, its renewal on the Hill suffers from benign neglect.
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But what the future is more likely to hold is benign neglect by America and declining military ambition in Europe.
For years, American policy makers have treated the growing menace of noncompliance with the Biological Weapons Convention with benign neglect.
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But it is the "benign neglect" policy of the United States toward Venezuela that may also end up enticing Chavez to overstep.
But years of benign neglect from officialdom have also taken their toll.
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Still, in its first five months in office, the Clinton policy toward Iraq seems, at best, to have been one of benign neglect.
But now, after years of benign neglect, GM is putting the pieces together, tapping the engineering, manufacturing and distribution resources of its global partners.
And so its social timidity got brushed over with benign neglect.
These attitudes have translated into a long history of benign neglect.
The risk is that Mr Snow has not just shifted towards benign neglect of the dollar, but hopes to do a bit of active (downward) prodding.
Prodded by the gas shortages, fearful of a power crunch and constrained by its own carbon targets, Labour has abandoned its previous policy of benign neglect.
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"A lot of the issues had been benign neglect of the community, really, " said Anne Stewart, who has lived in Wyandanch since 1973 and ran a civic group there.
But, after 10 years of benign neglect, and in the face of a further easing by the Federal Reserve, the world is again looking for an alternative to the dollar.
This is a startling departure from the governor's previous policy of benign neglect, and signals that the central bank wants to keep the Canadian dollar somewhere above 65.5 American cents.
"The main risk is to practice benign neglect ... as soon as things are going better, to forget that we had to cope with a very, very demanding crisis, " Trichet said.
Where there does appear to be "benign neglect, " however, is on the part of those in Western capitals charged with supervising and monitoring the banking practices of the Soviet Union's financing network.
Admiral Edney decried the "benign neglect" with which successive U.S. administrations have treated the Western hemisphere, giving rise to a situation in which it is too late to reconsider the wisdom of relinquishing the Canal.
Admiral Leon 'Bud' Edney (USN Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, who decried the "benign neglect" with which successive U.S. administrations have treated the Western hemisphere, giving rise to a situation in which it is too late to reconsider the wisdom of relinquishing the Canal.
Admiral Leon 'Bud' Edney (USN Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, decried the "benign neglect" with which successive U.S. administrations have treated the Western hemisphere and expressed grave concern at the present Administration's failure to apply the basic tenets of the Monroe Doctrine with respect to China's ominous and growing involvement in our backyard.
Second, in the case of the Soviet banking network, the "benign neglect of banking regulators and other government officials" to which Hoagland refers does not, of course, apply to the attitude of those in the USSRthose responsible in the Soviet Union for these institutions are actually directly involved in the banks' nefarious activities. charged with overseeing the operations of these institutions.
They talk of a Carter-Bush malaise and "benign" neglect of the dollar.
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