Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issuing fantasy announcements of expected earnings, mergers, new products. In one case an "extremely optimistic" claim that Chemtree Corp. had developed a shield against radiation fallout sent its stock up from 43? to $9.50 within a month. The SEC study proposed a new law to make "intentional or reckless dissemination of false and misleading statements" subject to stockholder damage suits and jail terms...
...original reprimand, Sachar also called attention to the "dangerous, reckless and undisciplined manner" of her talk. The Aberles will remain at Brandeis until the end of the current school year...
...week later, Mrs. Aberle was called into Sachar's office and reprimanded for her "language and manner" in giving the talk; Sachar told her, she reported, that her remarks were "dangerous and reckless." He also criticized the dismissal of one of her classes in order to enable the students to participate in a peace march. Mrs. Aberle has stated that all the students had acquiesced and that the class work was made up later...
...book, but in its anti-worldly way it seems to be saying that the two groups of people-the three travelers on the one hand, the murderer and his two victims on the other-are equally inadequate and equally doomed. Both Maria and Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal to love as the murderer...
...answer to charges that the Birch society's accusations have been reckless and damaging to many to many individuals, Bunker replied. "It is the individual's fault for taking actions which advances the communist cause, and not the fault of the John Birch Society for exposing them...