Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troubling characteristics in someone who is speed-cutting $200 billion from such programs as Medicaid, Head Start, Amtrak, public television, water quality and air-traffic control. Many citizens don't think these cuts make sense at all, but all citizens should wonder whether it isn't reckless to make them while making a personal fortune at the same time. Being Speaker used to be a full-time...
Intellectual upheavals are one thing, socialones quite another. My first year at Harvard, Iwas more reckless than ever before in my life. Itook risks without a second thought, some of thememotional ones. Youth had something to do with it,but really I was trying to replace what I'd givenup for lost--a familiar life of assured friendshipand love. And I did it by taking chances, goingout on limb after limb, hedging my bets on wildspeculations, all so that I wouldn't have to facethe changes that were happening. Many times I wasburned, but I never crashed...
Speaking on behalf of the selection panel, Heaney said: "Heather McHugh is one of poetry's artful dodgers, impatient with adequacy, as reckless as she is intelligent...
...tough Liddy Show? Yet to be. The patent for spreading this far-right opinion now belongs to Chuck Baker from KVOR, Colorado Springs, Colorado. You'll just be amazed how many shows there are like this in the country, fueling the fires of unrest with the gasoline of reckless language, hostile implications and dark ideas. Here, the extremists feel at home. Believe it or not, a Michigan Militia leader even served as the popular host of a radio show while members affiliated with his group were assumed to have been involved in the Oklahoma case...
Even with a sputtering offense, though, Harvard didn't stop getting the ball in the net. Colligan tallied on a free position after being fouled--something that Brown did with reckless abandon--and Winters scored on a fast break...