Word: recklessness
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...LACK OF COURTESY is a serious problem for society, according to a study by Public Agenda. Nearly half of all 2,013 surveyed say they have walked out of a store in the past year because of BAD SERVICE; 66% say they are bothered "a lot" by reckless drivers; and 56% are annoyed by people who use VULGAR LANGUAGE in public. The respondents weren't just pointing fingers at others: 41% said they themselves have behaved disrespectfully. Americans may be making some strides in civility, however; most surveyed said Americans are MORE POLITE to minorities and people with disabilities than...
...concern: young women who drink as dangerously as, if not more so than, their male classmates. This development invites a raft of knotty questions. Why are today's girls and young women, who are also getting arrested more and doing more drugs, behaving more like boys in so many reckless ways? Do they simply feel freer to be themselves? Or does the sassy, self-confident girl-power generation feel it must show up guys everywhere, including...
...like that, the antidrinking message has some bite. But for much of the past decade, many colleges have aimed their prevention campaigns exclusively at men. One favorite strategy has been to hang antidrinking posters over urinals. Indeed, one of the most convincing explanations for the spike in women's reckless drinking is that many women have simply shrugged off the negative effects of drinking as a guy's problem...
...small sense, Korea has been blessed by disaster. The 1997 crash forced government leaders to put the economy through the wringer: on the brink of bankruptcy, the government cleaned up the creaky financial system and reined in the big chaebol conglomerates, blamed for killing the economy with reckless borrowing. While other Asian countries, most notably Japan, have been slow to excise the failing companies and unproductive assets that are a drag on economic growth, Korea has been more ruthless. For example, bad debts at Korean banks were reduced by more than 55% last year thanks to aggressive disposal of distressed...
...knew, then, that Jayson Williams could keep trying to go where he could have ended up a long time ago? He was charged with reckless endangerment in 1994 after firing at the tire of a truck in the Meadowlands’ parking lot. He writes in his autobiography, Loose Balls, that he almost accidentally shot New York Jets receiver Wayne Chrebet in the face once during target practice at his home. And last November, he was fined for an altercation with police outside...