Word: recklessness
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...staggered into the sheriff's station after working the fire lines and said that they could not get eye drops to ease their smoke irritation. Sheriffs arrested one longhaired man in front of his endangered house, where he had gone to rescue his mother. He was booked for reckless driving and resisting arrest, and was jailed for two days before charges were dismissed...
...Pursuit of Loneliness, frequently imaginative in its observations, often weak in its catch-all subjectivity, is nonetheless a vivid critique of a society increasingly reckless in its push toward lonely self- destruction...
...tour of Moscow nightspots, ending up at the Slavyansky Bazar, a haunt of young Russians, where he danced exuberantly with bemused Russian girls. Certainly he represents a new school of diplomacy, whose members believe in direct and candid contact. To traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless. By classic standards, Scheel would certainly seem too imprecise and incautious to negotiate treaties on which depend the fate of nations. The London Financial Times summarily dismissed him last fall as "an attractive and amusing man who cannot help looking lightweight...
...around." Apprehensive local officials, backed by court orders, had prevented some of the biggest names in the world of rock-Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone-from performing at the Powder Ridge Ski area near Middlefield, Conn. Undaunted, some 20,000 youngsters turned the reckless affair into a cheerily noisy "people festival...
...Reckless Harvest. Even worse, quotas for the rich Antarctic waters continue to be based on the average amount of oil in a blue whale. Blues are the largest whales, often growing to 100 ft. in length and weighing 150 tons. Each contains as much oil as two fin whales, 2½ humpback whales or six sei whales. The net effect of measuring quotas in oil rather than individual species is that whaling expeditions kill everything that spouts; even the smallest whale has value. This year's Antarctic quota of 2,700 "blue-whale units" will cause more little whales...