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Jose Cabranes, Yale's attorney, denounced the suit as "reckless and obviously designed to attract maximum publicity for groundless charges." He said the university already had a system for investigating the harassment of students -but it is a system set up last year only to aid blacks, and has never been used to investigate sexual coercion charges...
These are dicey times for shipowners who play that gambler's game called tankers. As a result of the slowdown in the growth of petroleum consumption and some reckless overbuilding by shipyards in the early 1970s, the tanker business is in the worst depression in memory. Fully 10% of the world fleet sits idle for lack of cargo...
...since the '30s has the copper industry endured such deeply depressing times. Largely because of reckless overproduction of the red metal in some strapped Third World countries, notably Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire, worldwide supply exceeds demand by the biggest margin ever. Copper prices, which were as high as $1.52 per lb. on the London Metal Exchange in 1974, have collapsed to 56? in London and 65? in the U.S.-well below production costs at some mines. In these circumstances, U.S. firms were not all that upset three weeks ago when 40,000 copper workers seeking higher wages shut...
...reckless squadrons broil...
...comedy and simple emotions. Generally they just place their hero in one or more fast-moving vehicles while motivating one or more square characters to give chase to him. Between crashes, Reynolds is given a series of wisecracks that establish his basic screen character-shrewd, laid-back, a tad reckless and a devil with women...