Word: headlong
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...Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece of sculpture known as the Grand Canyon. The river has been running in this rut for 5 million or 6 million years...
...Eastern Europe rushes headlong into capitalism, professors and administrators at the Kennedy School of Government are trying to make sure the political backlash from economic reforms does not damage new democratic institutions...
...never knew that their financial security evaporated when, two years later, Blue Cross terminated its pension plan and instead bought annuities from Executive Life Insurance Co. The checks kept coming all the same. But by the time Ray Finan died in 1988, Executive Life was careering headlong toward financial disaster...
...history. Dismissing the steady-as-she-goes financial procedures of most insurers, Executive Life had blazed a fast track to spectacular growth, grabbing market share by offering higher payouts on annuities and charging lower fees than most of its competitors. To meet its growing obligations, the insurer plunged headlong into the high-yield bond market controlled by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken and puffed up its $10.1 billion asset base with $6.4 billion in risky junk bonds. Once the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive Corp., Executive Life's holding company, began to sustain huge losses. California insurance...
Living upstairs from a junior faculty member (which will happen in one of the buildings) is, at best, a mixed bag. The "enriching experience" of it all runs headlong into noise complaints, schedule conflicts and the more general problem of social asymmetry...