Word: reckless
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...conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
...doubt that many members would have opposed it. But the Council is not infinitely rich: therefore we have of necessary developed guidelines to order our spending, based on our experience awarding grants over the past two years. The alternative to such guidelines would be a student government which is reckless, irresponsible, and poor--both financially and spiritually...
Critics in and outside Congress, however, charge that Reagan's real purpose is to overthrow the Sandinista regime by force, and that to do it he is willing to bankroll a reckless contra campaign that could end by dragging the U.S. into a Viet Nam-style war in Central America. The mining has deepened their skepticism, and shaken the faith of Reagan supporters in the Administration's repeated assurances that its prime aim in backing the contras is to stop the flow of Communist weapons into Nicaragua and from there into El Salvador. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine...
This dual publication appears to be as reckless as it is immodest. In 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Britain's Anthony Burgess sets up a personal pantheon of later 20th century fiction; then, in Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby, he offers the latest sample of his own handiwork in that line...
...third annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. '49 lecture Sevareid criticized the Reagan administration's policy of threatening journalistic freedom noting Reagan's "reckless attitude toward the first amendment...