Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supervises all editing and is final arbiter of everything turned out by Industrial Light and Magic, his special-effects shop down the road. A man who believes in careful preplanning-all his films are meticulously story-boarded-he simply cannot be conned into spending money needlessly by a careless line producer or a runaway director. Typical is his attitude toward casting. "All I care about is good acting...
...mainstay of an Exeter education is a demanding round-table discussion, with no more than 14 students, led by an expert teacher. Warns Exeter's catalogue: "Maximum participation is encouraged, pretense and careless preparation [are] readily perceived." In practice, this means that Math Instructor Richard Brown knows his students will be prepared before he begins class discussion by asking, "Have we proved the equation?" In third-year French, Exonians are required to discuss in French their assigned stories. Anyone who lapses into English meets with the teacher afterward to talk things over -in French. Most of the school...
...advocate total divestiture of all investments in banks lending money to the South African government or companies operating with or in South Africe. Meanwhile, in abstaining on measure like the one at Mobil, the Corporation chooses to hide behind a smokescreen of excuses, citing items of grammar or careless wording that supposedly render resolutions infeasible or impracticable. The Corporation purports to consider individual stockholder issues seriously, sticking to its policy of considering each one on an ad hoc basis. Since 1972, when it created the ACSR, the Corporation has delegated to that committee the gathering of facts and the interpreting...
That was news to Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, coordinator of the local investigation. Not so, said he: "If we had a case that was solvable, you can be assured that we would have made that arrest." If the commissioner was annoyed about that possibly careless FBI disclosure, his boss, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, was incensed. In a letter to the FBI director, Jackson suggested that Webster "consider the impact of your casual press statements, [which] undermine the public's confidence in our investigation and create a great deal of misdirected media speculation and invective." Added Jackson...
Some experts argue that the profusion of handguns makes life easier for criminals. Guns stolen by burglars have often been used later in holdups and armed robberies. Moreover, many prosecutors warn that the law is not always on the potential victim's side. Careless and indiscriminate firing at a suspected intruder can be considered criminal. Still, insists Los Angeles Police Officer Loren Zimmerman: "I would rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." In any case, the arming of America is now out of control. One startling sign: making a spot check one recent night, private guards...