Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crosby, (Stephen) Stills and (Graham) Nash; to five years in prison for possession of a quarter-gram of cocaine and a firearm; in Dallas. Crosby, arrested while free-basing cocaine in his dressing room between Dallas rock-club performances last year, is on three years' probation for reckless driving in California...
Moreover, Yao's tale raises even more questions than it answers. Could Lin, one of China's greatest generals, really have been as reckless and incompetent, just at the point of starting the coup, as he appears in this book? What plausibility is there in the statement that Lin Liguo planned to blow up Mao's train, traveling at 70 m.p.h., with ground-to-ground missiles guided from more than 90 miles away? Even less credible is Yao's theory that the Trident, with Lin Liguo aboard, was hit by missiles while still in Chinese airspace...
...saber-toothed tiger is long gone, but the modern jungle is no less perilous. The sense of panic over a deadline, a tight plane connection, a reckless driver on one's tail are the new beasts that can set the heart racing, the teeth on edge, the sweat streaming. These responses may have served our ancestors well; that extra burst of adrenaline got their muscles primed, their attention focused and their nerves ready for a sudden "fight or flight." But try doing either one in today's traffic jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response...
Whatever its other economic failings, the Federal Government is normally not guilty of reckless stock market speculation. Nonetheless, Washington gambled on a very long shot a few years back and now stands to make a $200 million killing in Chrysler stock. The story begins in 1980, when a $1.2 billion loan-guarantee package was being assembled to save Chrysler from bankruptcy. The Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board, which had been set up by Congress, demanded that the Government be given the right to buy, at some future time, 14.4 million shares of Chrysler stock for $13 a share. No one outside...
...finding would be set aside by the judge who tried the case. They were right: last week Federal District Judge Oliver Gasch threw out the verdict. Tavoulareas is a "public figure," Gasch ruled, and thus was required to prove that the Post knew its story was false or showed reckless disregard for its accuracy. Said Gasch: "There is no evidence that the editors responsible for the article ever doubted its truthfulness...