Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have believed ever since I set foot in Bolivia that the management of the debt crisis by the United States has been dismal, unfair, completely one-sided, reckless from a foreign policy perspective, so I've been writing and speaking and lecturing and traveling to make that point...
Public debate scarcely considered that Lorenzo's reckless management style, not unreasonable union demands, might be at the root of Eastern's financial distress...
...with an untreated drinking problem. The issue is how closely this description fits Tower. There are also legitimate concerns raised by the widespread, but not unequivocally documented, tales of Tower's predatory behavior toward women. If true, the allegations of sexual high jinks seem to reflect a pattern of reckless and perhaps unbalanced behavior that should disqualify Tower for such a sensitive post...
...alcohol abuse cannot be ignored" and that he could find no evidence that the nominee had sought help to correct it. Nunn also judged some of the Texan's conduct with women to have been "indiscreet." Once again, a man's public career had been indelibly tainted by reckless personal behavior...
...Kamp was making a sobering point: the nation's body count keeps mounting as reckless gunplay continues at an alarming rate. In Bethesda, Md., last week, an emotionally disturbed office worker shot and killed three people and then committed suicide by turning his weapon on himself. An exchange of hard looks in a Woodbridge, Va., high school corridor ended when a visiting teenager shot a student in the groin. A man who was asked to leave a sweet-16 party took his revenge by spraying a New York City subway platform with a 9-mm automatic handgun, wounding...