Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meese's intimates insist he was careless, not venal. "He was trying to live up to the Joneses, and the Joneses felt sorry for him," says one, referring to the loans Meese got from friends. Even so, Meese's dream of being Attorney General is clearly on hold. "I see a hurt in his eyes," says his old friend Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. "He seems bewildered. He can't understand how this could happen...
...Paquita's" choreography was very traditional. In that the corps de ballet constantly returned to their two-line positions. Not only is the technique itself out of fashion and quite trite, but the actual dancing was careless. The dancers were not synchronized not did they seem confident in their movements and gestures. Only two dancers, Christine Spizzo and an inspiring Carla Stallings, altered the monotony of the sluggish variations the dancers performed. They were also the only two dancers who seemed to have the most challenging combination, which probably worked to their advantage...
...fact that our President may well be the most illiterate man in America today--have you ever noticed the amount of effort it takes to reconstruct his sentences--his government is disconcertingly inept at saying anything clearly. But the dangerous truth behind Mr. Reagan's statements is not his careless sentences, but his careless thoughts...
Associate Editor William A. Henry III, who won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize at the Boston Globe, wrote the cover story. Says he: "Most U.S. journalism is good-thorough, instructive, even at times courageous. But when a news organization gets arrogant or careless for just a few moments, the consequences for the individuals it covers can be catastrophic, and the damage to the craft considerable...
...have spawned one tragedy: at midweek, a G.I. accidentally shot and killed a fellow soldier while cleaning a .45-cal. pistol. Said Major General Jack Farris, commander of the U.S. forces in Grenada: "It's what happens when the war winds down. People get complacent. They get careless...