Word: reckless
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...Hotel, men in checked shirts sat on high stools with gun butts sticking out of black leather holsters. Bearded commando riders shouldered their way in with Sten guns slung on their backs. The flames of a big log fire (it gets cold up here at night) flickered on reckless, sun-wrinkled faces. A pretty woman threw open her white fur coat; round her slim waist was a leather cartridge belt and a bolstered Smith & Wesson...
...This is the sort of reckless, irresponsible and false utterance that is going to be thrown at members of the teaching profession," Mrs. Meyer said...
This makes rocket progress necessarily slow. Rosen believes that Von Braun's 7,000-ton shuttle rockets - to say nothing of his space station-would be a reckless leap into the blind future, like trying to build a B-36 out of the engines and wing sections used in World War I. The inevitable outcome, he thinks, would be a gigantic fiasco...
...best way to reduce accidents is to make their perpetrators pay for them. If the flat city policy rates were changed to personal rates, scaled according to number of accidents and amount of damages, it would shift the high costs from the careful drivers to the reckless. If policies for frequent offenders were expensive enough, insurance companies could cover their damage costs and even allow drivers to forego insurance until after their first or second accident...
...insurance companies' plan to curtail young drivers because they have too many accidents may sound asfounding, but it gropes toward the right principle. Instead of punishing any one group, be it an age unit or a city, an equitable insurance plan should single out the reckless drivers wherever they are, and pin the insurance costs on them...