Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only thing that remotely resembled a crash was a brief encounter between Bud Tingelstad's Lola-Ford and the wall on No. 3 turn. The yellow caution light shone for only 13 min. during the 31-hr. race- and 2 min. of that was the fault of a careless official who pulled the switch by mistake. Rookies finished third, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth. Seven top cars used Firestone tires, and the first four were powered by rear-mounted Ford engines. Offy Boss Louis Meyer then announced that his firm no longer would produce engines for the 500, thus...
...within four days. Bail is rare, but foreigners awaiting trial may be temporarily freed in Moscow-hardly an easy place to escape from. Foreign lawyers may supplement court-appointed Soviet lawyers, though purely as advisers. Soviet police are ordinarily quite tolerant of minor offenses, such as public drunkenness, but careless picture taking is bad medicine. Chary of national disgrace, the Soviet cops are ruthless in protecting tourists from thieves and swindlers...
...bulk of the crowd was made up of people who had nothing to do, who came to a frivolous anti-protest protest. While the Lampoon was in control most of them were laughing. Ballooning the actions of one student into a "drunken rally," however, can only be construed as careless reporting or poorly couched slander...
...have no reason to believe that the many errors in your story were due to bias, and not merely to superficial and careless reporting. I will give you the benefit of the doubt, as soon as I find out which accusation you prefer. David D. Friedman...
Most bankers still do not think that that is too much, but the number of critics is growing. Arthur L. Nash, senior loan executive of Manhattan's Brown Brothers Harriman, fears that "the stage may be set for trouble" because of careless lending, and H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's State Street Bank, worries because "banks are more highly loaned than at any time since the '20s." Says Ransom Cook, president of San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank: "The proper criticism now is that banks aren't conservative enough." If Senator McClellan...