Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Motor Co. paid defense lawyers more than $1 million to fight Indiana's charges that, because of design faults, it was guilty of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three teen-agers whose Pinto was rear-ended in 1978. After a dramatic trial, the giant automaker won. Last week it compensated the parents of the three girls. The total amount: $22,500. In exchange, the families promised not to sue Ford in civil court. The $7,500-a-person payoff is a mere fraction of the million-dollar settlement Ford has agreed to in some...
...even many of deregulation's original proponents conceded, suddenly throwing a tightly regulated business into a situation of free, and often reckless, competition was bound to cause some chaos. Several of the major airlines reacted to the new market freedom by overextending themselves. Braniff, for example, added 18 new U.S. cities and eight foreign countries to its network. In the process, the airline ran up $789 million in debts and is losing money rapidly...
When the rumors cleared, many print journalists suggested that the networks had been reckless-and some network executives were inclined to agree. Said Roone Arledge, president of ABC News: "A lot of information was being passed on by questionable sources." But Cronkite thought otherwise: "The Reagan people got too far out on a limb. They passed the word in the hall that the deal was set. If we were out on a limb at all, it was by taking that at face value...
...years ago, then made a career as an antitrust specialist in Chicago. When he moved from the federal appeals court in Chicago, he was viewed as a capable and conventional judge with moderate political views. Thus far, Stevens has surprised observers by siding often with the liberal Justices. Those reckless enough to label him at all regard him as left of center. "But he gets there in peculiar ways," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther...
...shadow government, hoping to get their manifestoes played back into the Soviet Union by Western radio, but the resonance of those messages among their countrymen seems to be very faint. To the extent that they have an impact, the dissidents are often dismissed by the general public as reckless dreamers or denounced as traitors, which is just the way the official press portrays them...