Word: recklessly
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...seemed beyond imagining that a bank like Barings could be utterly undone, sapped of more than a billion dollars--nearly twice its available capital--in a few weeks of reckless financial gambling by a single person. Around the world staff members were in shock. Many were about to receive their annual bonuses. Now, in Barings outposts outside Britain, passports were being confiscated, properties frozen, company credit cards rescinded, salaries withheld-just as tax time approached. "We were a bank with a crest, not a trademark," said one Hong Kong employee in dismay. Indeed, Barings was one of the Queen...
Sherman said that the armed robber showed reckless disregard for the safety of the public by engaging in a shoot-out during the busy lunch time at a crowded Harvard Square, the wire service reported...
...troupe, clad all in red, dominates the stage. Garments have been stripped one by one as the dancing heightens to an unbelievable pinnacle. Mist fills the dark stage and creates a dramatic "film-noir" tone, while dancers enter, seemingly out of nowhere, to astonish the audience with their reckless and energetic moves. The dancing is definitely classical, but definitively Tharp. Her dancers hurtle then strut across the floor, playing delightfully with their own talent...
...people never cease to amaze me. As if your incompetence, reckless disregard for the truth, and all-pervasive bias was not enough, you have taken them one step further...
Leave it to Tom Hanks, recent Oscar winner, to share with us the real state of affairs with regard to the American "Artist as Citizen." He contended that he didn't "think responsibility went beyond voting via secret ballot." In other words, be reckless on stage and civic-minded every two years for the thirty seconds it takes to check the box next to "Democrats." Way to go, Tom. You hit it right on the nose (we wish it were Geraldo's, again...