Word: carelessly
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...Oregon's Rajneeshee cult demonstrated in 1984, it is not difficult to set off a wave of food poisonings. Indeed, gastroenteritis caused by natural contamination and careless food handling afflicts millions and results in 5,000 deaths each year. The Rajneeshees considered a number of different viruses and bacteria, including those that cause hepatitis and typhus, but decided for their purposes (disrupting the outcome of a local election) on a strain of salmonella that would be debilitating but not fatal. Salmonella poisonings tend to be localized. With proper hygiene, the bacterium is not particularly contagious...
Once Harvard went up 2-0, instead of falling apart as in its 5-4 opening loss to Colorado College, the Crimson stepped up, kept the ball out of its end, and eliminated the few careless scoring opportunities it had allowed early...
...Even a careless eye will latch onto visible patriotic symbols surfacing in all the familiar places. Stars and stripes grace brick walls of campus courtyards and dangle from the windows of club buildings. In the street, pedestrians wear metallic flag pins on the lapels of their jean jackets...
...style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...
...pledges to uphold. And lastly, companies should be required to disclose their data-handling and security commitments to investors and insurance companies, so they can be factored into financial decisions. Privacy policies are confusing for any consumer. But in a world where attention to consumer desires matter (and where careless use of data can lead to liability and prosecution), an investor or insurer whose job it is to assess a company's long-term prospects has a strong interest in understanding what a company promises and whether it can deliver...