Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what a perfect place. Los Angeles in the late 1940s. Growing faster than anyone could imagine, much less control, the city encouraged reckless passions and unclean souls. Money and sex ruled over millions of greedy and lusty supplicants. And the millions had to contend only with each other because the rest of the world--either by design or by default--had decided to let Los Angeles grow on its own. Winner take...
...kicked and back-stabbed off the page. The Spellacy brothers-Detective Tom and Monsignor Des-played each other like a couple of harps and took down half the town's power elite when they played each other wrong. Dunne's was a misanthropic story that moved with reckless energy...
...party's leadership, deviating from the orbit of socialism, desiring and envying the decadent, bourgeois way of life in the West." These and similar superheated phrases appearing in the Chinese press these days recall the years when the late Mao Tse-tung carried out his frenzied and reckless campaigns for ideological purity in China. Though the more moderate post-Mao leadership in Peking had repeatedly promised not to resume such repression, the official press has recently bristled with attacks on people who are said to hold "corrosive, erroneous ideas" and to fan "aimless, evil winds." Having lived through...
Anyone with enough reckless courage to play the financial futures markets could earn high profits. Activity at this market in Chicago has more than doubled in the past two years. Faced with the risk of even higher interest rates, banks and pension funds have been forced to hedge with financial futures, which are contracts to buy Government securities or foreign currencies at some later date. The speculators are betting that interest rates will go higher rather than lower. If the cost of money goes up, they sell their futures contracts for a good earning. For instance, an investor...
...mistaking them. Some look like a cake mold capable of turning out angel food for 2,500. Others look like a louvered back door from a tract house in Brobdingnag, or a creature from a 1950s horror movie-the wretched spawn of reckless radioactive experimentation, the amazing colossal sand dollar...