Word: reckless
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...there is a negative constructiveness which interested parties tend to misinterpret, if they are clever; misunderstand, if sincere. If drinking threatens the life of a man, it is constructive to make him stop. Thus, if reckless spending promises to undermine the integrity of the government, it is constructive to make it stop. If men plan to tear down a perfectly good house, which merely needs a new heating system, it is constructive to make them stop. Thus, if the Administration wants to wreck many of the principles on which the United States operates, it is constructive to stop them...
...danger . . . lies entirely outside of the mechanism of the Stock Exchange. It is to be found in the banking situation, which is characterized by unprecedentedly low money rates and by the greatest surplus reserves ever recorded. . . . Given a sufficient degree of confidence, or perhaps of desperation, or even of reckless boredom over the prolonged idleness of money, a situation could develop which would threaten the gravest consequences through an upward flight of security prices...
...expect her parents to arrange her marriage, to be dominated throughout it by her husband and her mother-in-law, to have no interests outside her family. But by the time Shidzué Ishimoto was 30 she had broken most of the conventions of her class, had married a reckless, unstable aristocrat who changed from an extreme radical to an archreactionary, had studied stenography in a New York business college, successfully operated a yarn shop in Tokyo, helped to introduce the first birth control clinic in Japan...
...stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
...gaps with wordy descriptions of Montana scenery, gave him little experience for the great problems he was to face: he ran a coal yard, made about $5,000 a year, married quietly and happily, did a little gambling in mining claims on the side. Inspired by the reckless career of F. Augustus Heinze, who was matching wits with Butte copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly at the end of his resources when he managed...