Word: rashness
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...would like to think that we have reached a time when political assassinations have been supplanted by less rash means of resolving conflicts. Perhaps we might say, after witnessing the killings of Luis Donaldo Colosio and Yitzhak Rabin, that such incidents occur only in more volatile areas of the world than our own country. But even in the United States, where our own citizens also turned to murder for political ends in Oklahoma City, we are not immune. The anger we felt at Americans who killed Americans gives us a hint of what Israelis striving for peace feel today...
...films in the series ("Natural Born Killers") faced opposition not simply on the basis of its artistic or educational merit but on the question of the public welfare: the old argument of monkey-see, monkey-do. But, in truth, whether, say, "Reservoir Dogs" leads to a rash of sloppy plastic surgery set to cheesy 70's music depends most immediately on the mental state of the viewer than anything else. For the careful viewer, then, the series best illustrates the potential for careful filmmakers to apply sex and violence as particularly powerful tools of cinema (most of the films...
Four years after the infamous Tailhook scandal, the Navy is, at the very least, still climbing a steep learning curve. Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, chief of naval operations, does not see a trend in the rash of sexual-harassment cases. "We have set some standards," he says, "and I think what you're seeing now is the result of those standards being applied...
...epic short-sightedness, the United States Congress recently passed a budget resolution which calls for a one-third reduction in the financing of non-military science over the next seven years. Science is not the only victim of the Republicans' bold and often rash attempt to balance the budget, but it may well be the most important...
...move on to the rash of hearings which were made public. Take the Senate's unsuccessful attempts to 1) depose the attorney-general and 2) jail the president and first lady, both of which began with committee-chairing senators' vows that they had enough evidence to defame their executive-branch rivals. Hearing testimony before it's uttered is hard, real hard, guys...