Word: disregard
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...House had adopted a lower standard of proof that would have allowed execution of defendants found guilty of showing a reckless disregard for human life...
...society strikes back at the Generation Xers for their casual disregard. And with the police close behind them, Dag, Andy and Claire leave "society" behind as they cross the border into Mexico...
...regulation of the $2.2 trillion government securities market. Declared Congressman Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who chairs a subcommittee that oversees Treasury bond trading: "The issue is the integrity of the most important financial marketplace in the world." Markey blamed lax regulation for permitting Salomon to display "a cavalier disregard for the rules." Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut demanded that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady conduct a "full review" of the department's auction rules. With a $300 billion federal budget deficit to finance, Washington cannot afford to scare any bond buyers away...
...that is community life," says Amy Hall, a resident. "If we lived in the South American jungle, you'd be saying, 'Save the natives.' We're the natives here." The Rev. Robert Runcie, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, goes even further, charging that tourism "creates pollution, prostitution, economic exploitation and disregard for indigenous life-styles...
...syntax and went even further, stating that "deliberate alteration of the words uttered by a plaintiff does not equate with knowledge of falsity" for the purpose of meeting the actual malice test for libel suits brought by a public figure. Changing a quotation, Kennedy reasoned, can betray a reckless disregard for the truth only "when the alteration results in a material change in the meaning conveyed by the statement." Whether that sort of alteration happened when Malcolm profiled Masson will now be decided by a trial jury in California...