Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built, by the early 1980s, a $150 million financial empire that stretched across the Sunbelt. But the brash, stocky financier was actually a ringleader in a network of good ole boys who helped ruin more than a dozen savings institutions by handing out as much as $10 billion in reckless loans -- some of which ended up in Beebe's own pocket. Recalls Beebe's son Ken, who worked for him: "Dad would make a deal with the devil if it looked good...
...this reckless attack, then, really intended to fail? "We suspect -- mostly on the basis of the two Libyan pilots parachuting from their MiGs -- that they intentionally provoked the incident," said an Italian government official. Besides being concerned about the chemical plant, added a West German diplomat, Gaddafi "has been outraged by the P.L.O.'s concessions to the U.S. for direct contacts, and he could have seen a chance here to try to sabotage...
...measures by the Japanese government, but because it refuses to promote national savings and encourage investment. Instead of blaming Japan for our inability to compete abroad or accusing our European allies of being responsible for our deficits, the United States should realize that it cannot continue to pursue such reckless, consumption-oriented fiscal policies in the years to come and that it must reinvest in job training, education, and research to restore America's competitive edge...
This wondrous globe has endured for some 4.5 billion years, but its future is clouded by man' s reckless ways: overpopulation, pollution, waste of resources and wanton destruction of natural habitats. TIME analyzes the looming ecological crisis and provides an agenda for urgent action...
...long voyage of the Pelicano is a stark symbol of the environmental exploitation of poor countries by the rich. It also represents the single most irresponsible and reckless way to get rid of the growing mountains of refuse, much of it poisonous, that now bloat the world's landfills. Indiscriminate dumping of any kind -- in a New Jersey swamp, on a Haitian beach or in the Indian Ocean -- simply shifts potentially hazardous waste from one place to another. The practice only underscores the enormity of what has become an urgent global dilemma: how to reduce the gargantuan waste by-products...