Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deaths in 1981. Last year Dr. Charles Wetli, the deputy chief medical examiner for Miami's Dade County, attributed 14 local deaths exclusively to cocaine. All of those who died had been frequent users. But the alarming fact is that most of the dead had not been especially reckless: two-thirds died after merely snorting coke?not after free-basing or shooting up?and, according to Wetli, "[none used] any more on the day they died than they had previously." A stark example came last week near Palm Beach, Fla. Socialite William Ylvisaker Jr., 27, died of respiratory failure after...
Like a bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...
...with a small cache of supplies and the modest remains of his savings account, and rolled out of his Columbia, Mo., home in search of the forgotten land. Life's desperate moments are terrifying but also exhilarating, for they open up the vast possibilities of reckless abandon. Jobless, wifeless, and 38 years old--"an age that carries its own madness and futility"--Least Heat Moon "took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected...
Later, more reckless radicals, with less patience for theories and manifestos, linked universities to the planning and execution of the Vietnam War. They vowed to raze academia along with the rest of the Establishment to permit a "fresh start" for American society. In April 1969, a Marxist splinter group of the fast deteriorating SDS led a forceful takeover of Harvard's University Hall, telling the majority of the campus leftists, who had opposed the occupation. "You and the administration are the same thing, and we will smash you both...
...SUCH RECKLESS WAGE AND PRICE increases inevitably translate into cost overruns. Cost overruns in defense procurement have been so huge for so long that they've almost lost their power to shock--but not quite. In the past 30 years, only 10 percent of all new weapons systems have been brought in under budget. Between March and July, the cost of one system--the Maverick air-to-ground missile--increased by 25 percent. McDonnell-Douglas told the Navy last month that the cost of another new weapon, the F-18 fighter, would increase by a third from its original price...