• This god Janus is concerned with unusual death, unusual family relationships, and wanton murder.

    FORBES: Amy Winehouse Joins Unfortunate "27 Club"

  • This has happened time and time again when dramatic events occur that produce wanton fear among investors.

    FORBES: Lessons From The Aborted Fiscal Cliff Drop And Seven Stocks For The Next Doomsday Debt-Ceiling Scenario

  • This was the era of Casanova's wanton memoirs and the splendid Venetian regattas and processions painted by Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.

    NPR: Book Traces Family Suffering from Deadly Insomnia

  • Lord Burns said "inexcusable and wanton" violence had been inflicted on Mr Ferry.

    BBC: South Bridge, Edinburgh

  • If Works could link up with Visa, companies could use credit cards to handle purchases without worrying about wanton overspending.

    FORBES: The Oops Factor

  • And although the image of Arabs wallowing in wanton luxury persists abroad, Gulf societies, with some notable exceptions, are fairly egalitarian.

    ECONOMIST: Time travellers

  • "Wanton violence against police officers on duty shall be sternly dealt with to the full extent of the law, " she told reporters.

    BBC: Uganda: Kizza Besigye arrested after policeman's death

  • Ms Reyad and Ms Abid are the latest journalists in a roster of heroic victims, dedicated professionals killed in a wanton campaign of violence.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • But that was a judgment made about a public man: Starr has now introduced his wanton private shadow, and asks us to reckon with both.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.

    BBC: A new wave of refugees in the city that was Smyrna

  • Nevertheless, it is this public perception that justice has not been done which has turned this wanton stabbing into a defining moment for race relations in Britain.

    ECONOMIST: Crime and policing

  • Planners tend, unsurprisingly, to deny the charge of wanton carelessness.

    ECONOMIST: A hard rain

  • Shark fin is a particularly sorry example of the wanton decimation of ocean life feeding more indulgent tastes (see also bluefin tuna) as well as for more basic diets.

    FORBES: Side Lines

  • To the guardians of accounting principles, the best cure for wanton stock-options grants, which made billions of dollars for insiders before the market came crashing down, is to expense them.

    FORBES: Options vigilantes

  • There is no justification for such a wanton destruction.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • Suppose, as in the case of Enron, someone left additional discoverable documentation that attorneys could easily portray as wanton callousness, and the paper trail lead right up to the C-suite offices.

    FORBES: What Will It Take For HR To Gain The Respect That It Wants?

  • In 1868, John Stuart Mill made one of the most eloquent defenses of capital punishment, arguing that executing a murderer did not display a wanton disregard for life but, rather, proof of its value.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • Behn's high-nosed, thin-lipped and French-educated Oroonoko is essentially an idealised European prince in blackface, while the sighs and tremblings of the lovers and the wanton dalliance of the king have an air of cupids and harpsichords and peeping breasts.

    ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford

  • As we exclusively revealed in November 2012 this is on top of criticism by the Independent Police Complaints Commission who found there was a "wanton lack of intrusive enquiries, poor practice and woeful record keeping" within Durham Police's firearms licensing unit.

    BBC: Who controlled the use of guns in County Durham?

  • While I have my deep reservations about the wanton nature with which we are throwing privacy to the curb, I do wonder (perhaps over-hopefully) whether the end of privacy might also herald the end of the often useless feeling of alienated embarrassment.

    FORBES: Can Shame Survive In World Without Privacy?

  • The only thing more impressive than Exxon's profits may be its lawyers: In its argument, the oil giant points to an 1818 maritime decision by the Supreme Court which says a company isn't liable for punitive damages based on the "wanton acts" of a ship's captain.

    FORBES: The $2.5 Billion Question

  • Few knowledgeable people dispute the growing evidence that BP was negligent in the way it bungled the completion of the well and caused this blowout, and that its negligence was "willful and wanton, " terms used in maritime law for centuries to provide for the award of punitive damages against this kind of egregious misconduct.

    CNN: My son's grieving family deserves more from BP

  • British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in 1940 had said, "The fighters are our salvation but the bombers alone provide the means of victory, " was so shocked by the extent of the annihilation that he issued a memo criticizing the "acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive" and in his VE Day speech at the end of the war scarcely mentioned Bomber Command.

    WSJ: Bomber Command Memorial | They Were the Means of Victory | By Richard Holledge

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