They convey forcefully the unvarnished truth: Irresponsible behavior has a high cost.

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And this irresponsible behavior on the part of some contributed to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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The problem is, such irresponsible behavior costs all the rest of us money.

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There have to be consequences for such irresponsible behavior on the international stage.

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Hughes noted that Bush has admitted to past irresponsible behavior which he does not consider a good example to set for children.

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With a constant array of irresponsible behavior being thrust in their faces from the media, who can they possibly look up to?

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We want to target socially irresponsible behavior, and there are easy targets.

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But we also know the free market works best for everyone when we have smart, commonsense rules in place to prevent irresponsible behavior.

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Never before in American economic history have we undergone such a confluence of irresponsible behavior, of measures taken and not taken that have been demonstrably destructive.

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As for trends, the data showed that while punishment for irresponsible behavior has increased over the past three decades, the reward for responsible behavior has decreased.

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While nobody wants to see a family locked out of their house due to foreclosure, we run the risk of moral hazard if we continue to reward irresponsible behavior.

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We can no longer engage in such irresponsible behavior.

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Clearly, the party most responsible for calling out Livni and her associates for their irresponsible behavior is the Israeli public, which voted for Netanyahu and his coalition to lead the country rather than Livni and her party.

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What possible good can come of such irresponsible parental behavior?

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To find out, I tracked hundreds of articles in The Wall Street Journal for relevant press coverage on responsible and irresponsible environmental behavior by U.S. publicly-traded companies from 1980 to 2009.

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