Word: recklessness
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...even casual trial followers are aware that a public figure who sues a newspaper or magazine for libel must prove not only that the story is false but that it was published with reckless disregard for the truth. This test of "actual malice" was meant to safeguard the press, but in practice it has proved a complex standard that is open to wide interpretation by juries. In recent years, seven out of every ten libel cases lost by the media have been overturned on appeal. However, in an unexpected reversal last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., reinstated...
...Simon & Simon, and Susan Newman, 32, television producer, to testify before a Senate subcommittee about depictions of alcohol and drug abuse on TV. "We want to raise the consciousness of the media," said Newman, as her father Actor Paul Newman sat quietly in the audience. "Too often they show reckless behavior without its repercussions, and you wind up telling people this is acceptable, and it is not." Newman speaks from the heart. She is the director of special projects for the Scott Newman Center, named for her brother, who died from mixing drugs and alcohol 6 1/2 years...
...Nicaragua, pointed to a new form of containment, a kind of ex post facto containment: harassment of Soviet expansionism at the limits of empire. There is an echo here of the old 1950s right-wing idea of "rolling back" Communism. But with a difference. This is not the reckless--and toothless--call for reclaiming the core Soviet possessions in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets claim for self-defense and, more important, which they are prepared to use the most extreme means to retain. This is a challenge to the peripheral acquisitions of empire...
...President may be revolutionary, but he is not reckless. To ensure that he does not stray too far from current thinking, he appends a reference to international law: "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense and totally consistent with the OAS and U.N. charters...
...take part in the program: "The idea was to harass them so they would be on their wings the whole day till they literally dropped dead." Sparrows were not the only birds to perish in the melee. Cranes, ibis and eagles, among others, were driven to near extinction by reckless pesticide spraying, pollution and the destruction of forests. Even today the woods around Peking remain eerily silent...