Word: careless
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...their lives are usually in for a rude shock. Hopes of escaping a dreary existence, of finding direction and purpose, generally sink in a sea of responsibility. With no one to watch the child, school becomes impossible, if not irrelevant. And despite the harsh lessons of experience, many remain careless or indifferent about birth control. About 15% of pregnant teens become pregnant again within one year; 30% do so within two years. "You ask, 'Why didn't you come in for the Pill?' and they say, 'I didn't have time,' " says an exasperated Kay Bard of Planned Parenthood...
...either that it isn’t a case of plagiarism, since it was accidental, or that it’s a case of accidental plagiarism,” he wrote. “But even when it’s accidental, however, or the fault of a careless sub-researcher, the professor is responsible for the carelessness...
...said that careless students can be placed on probation or made to take tutorials on using sources. However, he called such measures impractical for professors...
...long way from street singing to stardom, and the intervening 15 years have been riddled with delays and detours, but Peyroux, 31, has made it. With two successful CDs behind her--the more recent of which, last year's Careless Love (Rounder), continues to sell nicely--she ranks as one of the bright talents of the jazz world. Instead of on sidewalks, she performs in festivals, auditoriums and clubs, backed by a polished combo. She still snaps her fingers (when she isn't strumming her guitar), but now plenty of listeners are snapping and tapping along with...
...frosh scurried past the exhibit, perhaps because they were unaware of its artful worth or perhaps because they were unable to distinguish it from the growing heap of real trash sprouting around it. Maybe it was too cleverly camouflaged by the camera equipment and electrical wires that a careless festival employee had stashed under the table as a haven from the rain. Clearly, he did not see the artistic value of trash...