Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million kids out there who have no skills other than fighting," says James Galipeau, a veteran officer in the probation department. "They are not afraid of the police or jail or of dying." As demonstrated by the Good Friday attack, the gang members also show a grotesque disregard for the safety of innocent people. Of the 387 gang-related homicides in Los Angeles County last year, approximately half were innocent bystanders caught in the cross fire of shootouts...
...white wall above the heads of these people were as bare as a baby's newborn behind. No nativity scenes. No crosses hung outward from the wall at an angle. And no clocks. Thompson was notorious for his disregard for time, which may or may not have something to do with his declining congregation in recent years. He had the queer belief that the Lord's word was too large to be contained between a regular amount of time each week, and Thompson was once moved enough to speak on Mark 1: 6-7 for an hour-and-three-quarters...
Investigators apparently have not determined a motive for the crime. Just three days before the shootings, Thompson mentioned another death threat to his friend but still did not contact the police. The disregard for danger that marked Thompson's driving career may have led to his death in his own front yard...
...rest of the counts in the indictment are commentary. The shredding of documents, the failure to cooperate with investigators, the lying to Congress--all of it is effect rather than cause. It is the disregard for the will of the Congress--and thus the will of the people--and the single-minded determination to back the contras even when the nation had made known its opposition to that support, that must be punished. The other actions are only the inevitable consequences of one branch of government taking the law unto its own hands...
Mallon delights in his disregard for the facts. In a disclaimer he writes, "Just as the people herein never existed, and the incidents described didn't happen, all sorts of Harvard rules, buldings and curricula, along with other bits of reality, have been tampered with and rearranged in order to accommodate this novel's fictive whims and entirely harmless purpose...