Word: recklessness
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...years as the company's boss and was succeeded as chairman by Philip Caldwell, 60. The second was for Donald Petersen, 53, who replaced Caldwell as president. The third was for the automaker's acquittal that same day in Winamac, Ind., on unprecedented criminal charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of three teen-age girls in a fiery Pinto crash in 1978. They were the 57th, 58th and 59th people to die in accidents involving the subcompact, which Ford began making...
...Sleeping Car Porters. It is grounded in the "new values" of Jack Kerouac's prose--an inspiration for Tom Hayden--and of Allen Ginsberg's poetry, particularly his seminal work, Howl. And from those seeds, Viorst says, "the Movement" rose up, at times singularly eloquent, at times wanton and reckless. In an epilogue, Viorst says the '60s taught Americans that their country was not immune to social disorder--the kind of disorder that titillated Viorst's instincts and offended his middle class values at once. And given "the right provocation," he says, America could once again take its politics into...
...potentially far-reaching cases. To date, Ford has been the target of more than 50 civil suits involving allegations that Pintos made from 1971 through 1976 are unusually prone to catching fire when hit from the rear. But in the Indiana trial, the company is facing criminal charges of reckless homicide, the first such action ever brought against an automaker. The makers of Agent Orange, a herbicide used in Viet Nam, are being sued by ex-servicemen who say the chemical caused a variety of ailments. Asbestos producers face enormous claims for diseases caused by their product's dust...
...civil suits involving Pinto crashes, courts have awarded damages as high as $6 million. In the criminal case now being tried, Ford may be fined a maximum of only $30,000 if it is found guilty under the two-year-old Indiana law allowing corporations to be charged with reckless homicide. No jail sentences are threatened because no individual was accused. Yet a guilty verdict could affect the 23 pending civil suits. It could also trigger a rash of criminal charges against other companies involved in product-safety disputes...
Harsh words, and they drew harsh words in reply. The Chicago Tribune accused Kissinger of "Machiavellian self-promotion" and of making "use of the crisis for political purposes." The New York Times termed Kissinger's speechmaking "reckless" and "repellent." On NBC'S Meet the Press, former Under Secretary of State George Ball claimed that the pressure on the Administration to permit the Shah to enter the U.S. had come from "Mr. Kissinger and a few others" and had been "enormously obnoxious...