Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best way to reduce accidents is to make their perpetrators pay for them. If the flat city policy rates were changed to personal rates, scaled according to number of accidents and amount of damages, it would shift the high costs from the careful drivers to the reckless. If policies for frequent offenders were expensive enough, insurance companies could cover their damage costs and even allow drivers to forego insurance until after their first or second accident...
...insurance companies' plan to curtail young drivers because they have too many accidents may sound asfounding, but it gropes toward the right principle. Instead of punishing any one group, be it an age unit or a city, an equitable insurance plan should single out the reckless drivers wherever they are, and pin the insurance costs on them...
...York three small stockholders filed suit demanding that a temporary receiver be appointed for the company "to prevent it from becoming insolvent." Almost simultaneously, they filed another suit against Howard Hughes, asking an accounting of "his stewardship [and] all damages caused by his mismanagement, neglect and reckless disregard of his duties" when he was boss of the big moviemaker...
What the people saw, from Hartford to Brooklyn, was Truman out-Trumaning himself. Upon Dwight Eisenhower he poured his most reckless abuse. Samples...
Passionate Voyage. In Haverhill, Mass., Winfield E. Donahue was fined $100 for reckless driving after his girl friend told police that when she refused his marriage proposal, he replied: "O.K., you asked for it," and rammed a telephone pole...