Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hype of the whole enterprise, in retrospect, seems reckless. Let us tick off the deceptions that everyone involved pretended were true: the trip was Jessica's idea; she was doing it for the joy of flying; she was truly piloting the plane; it was safe; she wasn't scared. For the most part, the public played along with this game, for it is easier not to question the received platitudes. Yet, looking at her taped interviews after the fact, it is clear that the dutiful little girl who didn't want to disappoint her father, who insisted...
There are already signs that America's partners are increasingly less willing to submit to this reckless bullying: look no further than the phony triumph of the 1995 car agreement with Japan, when the Japanese (rightly) refused to offer the guarantee of any numerical targets...
Anne is a vivid presence here, a child whose reckless brio offended some of the town's proper Jews. But we also get a fine image of the doting Otto, who underestimated Hitler's genocidal itch. He was not the only Jew to do so. A family friend, Hanneli Goslar, recalls that as late as 1940, her father would dress up as the Fuhrer and ring the Franks' doorbell for a shock and a giggle; he later died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Goslar and a dozen others weave the tapestry of their lives and Anne's, from...
Each candidate had managed to diminish the others, and so they headed into the crucial last days just where they had been before, only less so. The debate produced no reckless pledges or memorable visions. By the time it was over, many sensed there had been a clear winner, and that it had been Bill Clinton...
...action. But Alexander had the good sense to stop running such ads before voters in Iowa and New Hampshire turned against them. He has come this far mainly by emphasizing what he is not: not old, not mean, not a "Washington insider" or a "Wall Street insider," not a reckless right-winger or a TV mudslinger...