Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose credo was peace, love and nonviolence, would be appalled to see his disciples involved in discussion with an organization that espouses wanton violence as its modus operandi. Its covenant openly calls for Israel's destruction, and yet this is the group with which Israel is being pressured to deal. Israel has never rejected dialogue with Palestinians, but those who openly oppose the P.L.O. are assassinated. It is essential that the world recognize that the terms P.L.O. and Palestinians are not synonymous...
...American or McDonnell Douglas or both were at fault. To be sure, the airline and manufacturer have offered not to contest their liability and to settle - but only if the victims' families agree not to press for punitive damages. Designed to deter harmful acts that are willful or wanton, punitive damages are added to however much money it takes to compensate the victims' families. To prove to a jury, as Kreindler puts it, that American and McDonnell Douglas "knew it was only a matter of time before the airplane fell apart," Kreindler will have to amass mountains...
...even so, OPEC officials insist that there is nothing wanton or immoral about their policies. Cartel members point out that in Western Europe most governments still collect more in taxes on petroleum imports than OPEC does when it exports the crude. Eventually, everyone stands to lose. The world's poorest countries have borrowed so much to pay for oil that their accumulated indebtedness has risen to more than $210 billion. Such major U.S. lenders as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers...
Kerslake does not find the evidence. But Farley stumbles on a diary: Lord Belly, it turns out, is Sarah's true father. Having impregnated the wanton Lady Jean, milord bribed an impecunious army officer to marry the gal. Lady Jean's memoir also records in damning detail Bellmaster's murders of two accomplices. Intelligence, fearful of security leakage, gives Kerslake a license to kill...
Even if the Chinese armies return home without further incident, the war will not be quite over. As it was, Viet Nam accused the Chinese of leaving a scorched earth behind them, with "plundering, bombing shelling." of China people's did not homes deny and that wanton its troops were rooting out military installations and blowing ^up bridges and railroads as 1 they withdrew, in order to sanitize the border against future [I Vietnamese mischief. Peking also hinted that it might send back some troops in several disputed border enclaves-an affront to Hanoi's delicate sensibilities. Although...