Word: reckless
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While it is true that some drivers tend to run bicyclists off the road, by and large the bikers are far more reckless. If the only victims of reckless bikers were themselves, it wouldn't be an issue. Rather, asking the police to enforce traffic laws and ticket bicyclists who drive recklessly is not asking them to protect people only from themselves...
Belushi had a kind of reckless, rock-'n'-roll comedic sensibility. He was a volatile combination of Lou Costello and Vlad the Impaler, a performer with a wide appeal but a narrow range, whose talent could ignite television sketches but was quickly being tapped out in movies. He did not have the generative comic gifts of an Albert Brooks, say, or an Andy Kaufman, but he had a gruff, tough persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing...
...book Passage Through El Dorado, Kandell plays up the similarities between the wave of settlement now occurring in the jungle interior of South America and the push west so important to U.S. history. The wild, reckless settlement of the Amazon region has much of the character of an Oklahoma land rush. And they may have the same importance for the nations south of the border that the settlement of the west had for the United States-relieving overcrowded cities and rural areas of some of their excess populations. This could be especially important in nations like Brazil, whose urban areas...
...many supporters, on the other hand, say that the organization has become a scapegoat for reckless spending in Third World countries. All it is doing, they contend, is calling for needed economic reforms, without which many countries would be financially paralyzed. Says John Williamson, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "Right now the fund is more harsh than is desirable, but it is not clear that it has an alternative...
...feared that the Justices might undermine their 1964 ruling in New York Times vs. Sullivan. That decision established that to sue journalists for libel, public officials-later extended to public figures-must prove "actual malice," meaning that statements were made with the knowledge that they were false, or with reckless disregard for the truth. Said Rochester, N.Y., Libel Attorney John McCrory: "We were all terribly worried that the court was ready to repudiate Sullivan by abandoning it as a standard, or eroding it." That, says Lawyer Abrams, would have "changed the world in terms of libel." Instead, he said...