Though his emphasis is on our current state of knowledge, Mr. Scharf does not neglect his history.

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The trust has been at the centre of one of the worst scandals in NHS history after neglect and abuse led to hundreds of needless deaths from 2005 to 2008.

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These attitudes have translated into a long history of benign neglect.

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The Los Angeles River, however, has a history of ridicule and neglect: A state legislator in the 1980s wanted to build a highway on it.

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One case involved a boy known to social services because he had been subjected to neglect and physical abuse, while a family history of sexual abuse and the presence of adult sex offenders in his home suggested he had also been sexually abused.

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In fact, the history of police reform in New York City is one of public posturing and private neglect.

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Has her death come as an inflexion point in India's history, which will force the government to enact tougher laws and people to begin seriously thinking about the neglect of women?

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That those in charge may limp with wounded pride into the annals of history is hardly a comforting thought to those drowned, diseased, and displaced in New Orleans out of neglect and sheer apathy.

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