Word: recklessly
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Unable to run its half court offense effectively, Harvard instead relied on getting its points on the free throw line. Which was a good plan, since the referees began to call fouls with reckless abandon...
...aftermath of the bankruptcy filing soon led to finger pointing. Holders of Orange County municipal bonds sued county officials as well as Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney, claiming the firms had concealed "reckless investment practices." Not to be outdone, the county sued Nomura Securities for ignoring the bankruptcy filing and selling $900 million of bonds that it held as collateral; county officials indicated that they would sue other firms that had dumped bonds as well. And the Securities and Exchange Commission widened its investigation of the financial collapse by subpoenaing Merrill Lynch to testify...
Instead White House aides glimpsed an opportunity. Helms' blast -- the second reckless salvo from the archconservative Republican in four days -- offered Clinton a chance to point out how extremist Republicans can be. His public reaction was carefully studied: calling Helms' comments "unwise and inappropriate," the President suggested that Republicans might want to examine whether Helms was fit to serve as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "That's a decision for them to make," said Clinton...
...future, I ask that if Lat and McGuire, or any other expounder of opinion, should wish to characterize others negatively, they do so without resorting to language that inadvertiantly denigrates an entire group of people. Through such reckless descriptions, outdated prejudices receive a voice perhaps more powerful than any impassioned diatribe, evoking the most fertile attitude in which prejudice can take root: that of thoughtless or casual acceptance of simplistic, injurious categorizations. Julia...
...lawsuit brought by a psychoanalyst who said she'd made up quotes in an unflattering article about him. A U.S. District Court jury in San Francisco found that two quotes used by Malcolm were indeed false, but it ruled that Jeffrey Masson failed to prove a deliberate or reckless disregard for the truth -- a higher standard that applies to public figures under fire. The 1992 New Yorker article focused on Masson's firing as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. After Masson's earlier win, the jury deadlocked on damages and a retrial was ordered. Although Malcolm may have...