Word: careless
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Before the ominous S&L predictions had a chance to sink in, alarms were going off about other potentially monumental crises. A report by Budget Director Richard Darman warned that careless management at such agencies as the Veterans Administration and the Department of Energy may have allowed scandals rivaling the estimated $8 billion imbroglio at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to go undetected. But the gravest worries were triggered by concerns about the solvency of more than $5 trillion in federal credit and insurance programs that cover everything from bank deposits to student loans and Third World...
Dershowitz, who labeled me a "careless and mendacious misreporter of truth," challenged me to "read the published record," to see what a good...
...know anything about John Larew, except that he is a careless and mendacious misreporter of truth, and that everything he says should be viewed against the background of the reality. How do I know this? Because of how he characterizes my own views on Israel. Everything he says about my views is demonstrably false. He accuses me of defending "year-long detainment without trial," and "no due process" in Israel. If Larew had simply bothered to read the published record, he would have seen that I have been opposed to administrative detention without due process for nearly 20 years...
Exaggeration is a useful educational tool. However Ec 10's presentation of Rawlsian distributive justice is not just a case of using an extreme example to illustrate a point. The selective witholding of inconvenient parts of Rawls' assumptions is careless at best and dishonest at worst. If Rawls' ideas are only useful to Ec 10 in a severely mutated form, they should not be used...
...difficult enough to make our formal complaint processes accessible to those who may be feeling vulnerable and frightened after assault or harassment. Careless reporting only augments this difficulty and increases the distance between administrators and students. Janet A. Viggiani Assistant Dean for Coeducation