Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweep of the embassy found NPPD again. Also, some embassy employees developed skin rashes, the possible result of contact with heavier-than-usual concentrations of the chemical. Intensified searches pointed to more widespread Soviet use of NPPD, and in larger quantities than ever before. At one point, in fact, careless KGB operatives seem to have sprinkled it so heavily in the embassy that the chemical for once turned visible, leaving a telltale yellow splotch. Two weeks ago the Administration made a detailed report to President Reagan, who approved a formal protest to Moscow and a public statement. U.S. officials admit...
Gorbachev declared that the time had come to "literally rap inefficient executives on the knuckles." One of the first to feel the pain was Victor Fyodorov, 73, Petrochemical Industry Minister for the past two decades, who was taken to task for a "careless attitude." The General Secretary noted sarcastically that Fyodorov had promised "that he would rectify his shortcomings. But evidently he does not keep his promises." The party Central Committee, Gorbachev declared, "has given instructions that the matter should be thoroughly investigated." Few doubted that the veteran bureaucrat was being invited to consider clearing out his ministerial desk...
...Wally Worthington and Candy Kendall, a glittering couple who come to St. Cloud's for a familiar reason. Wally will someday inherit Ocean View Orchards, a thriving apple farm just off the Maine seacoast, and Candy will someday marry him, once Dr. Larch terminates the symptom of their careless passion...
...evidence that it had," said TIME's Cave. "Our problem is that we don't think they would have come to these conclusions if testimony that should have been before them had been before them. Nevertheless, we regret we gave the jury any reason to find TIME negligent or careless. There was without question one error in the story...
When President Bok wonders why minority students are dissatisfied with the College, he need look no further than the first floor of University Hall where Dr. Counter, through careless management, has turned the Foundation into a shell of its intended self. Dr. Counter talks of improving race relations, but that is ridiculous when one realizes that he has lost contact with he various ethnic groups on campus. Dr. Counter is leaving his position at the conclusion of the current academic year, but one may hope that time he rereads the report of 1981 that spawned "his" organization...