Word: carelessly
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...their families is immeasurable. The first lesson should be that any threats should be reported, as many warning signs went unheeded by students and adults in this case. The second is that of gun control--teens only have access to life-ending force because lax gun laws and careless parents make guns the weapon of choice. The stance of the National Rifle Association and of President George W. Bush on tightening gun restrictions is inexcusable, but that is another subject. In the face of mandatory sentencing for this 15-year-old as an adult, I am more concerned with...
...read your article "Wounded Osprey" [NATION, Feb. 5], an old saying kept popping into my mind: "Necessity is the mother of invention." What necessitates the use of this aircraft? The cold war is over, and we are not at war. So why is the military so careless with the lives of those who must take the risk of flying the Osprey? This nation put a man on the moon in less time than it has taken to get this aircraft off the ground with doors that open and functional cooling-heating and communications systems. Sometimes the art of being...
...played some very careless defense, and it cost us," Stone said. "And we weren't as well off offensively as we needed to be. We gave up some easy ones just because there were some defensive lapses...
...little careless. You didn't rebalance your portfolio as tech stocks soared a year ago. Maybe you hung on to that dotbomb until it exploded, and then made things worse by running up your credit cards. Or while your investments were booming, you decided you could afford to save less. With stocks cratering and the economy slowing, you don't feel so flush anymore. It's time to get real and fix those giddy-times mistakes...
...books and allowing others to use them; the uniform loan period will surely help students keep all these dates straight as they stare at their bookshelves. However, the decision to double the fines, for whatever reason, is a poor one. Students are notoriously short on money, and students are careless, not malicious, in keeping a book past its due date...