Word: goosey
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...than be publicly tarred with a bearish brush. (President Clinton never rang the bell; his advisers warned him that the image would be replayed endlessly if the market dropped.) But while ringing was once limited mainly to heads of state and tony Wall Street types, things have got loosey-goosey lately. Since Sept. 17, when a phalanx of leaders appeared to help instill confidence in the reopening market, bell ringers have included such financial heavy hitters as Victoria's Secret model Tyra Banks and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants. Hmmm. Wonder if Bob is into cyclicals or techs...
...high rate of administrative turnover also meant that there was little oversight of an accounting system that Chaudhry called “old-fashioned and loosey-goosey...
Behind the loosey-goosey exterior, Glenn was something of a perfectionist, and found himself growing fascinated not just with learning the art of casting but also with refining it, creating molds that grew more and more intricate and had fewer and fewer flaws--precisely the kind of near-zero-tolerance quality needed in industrial manufacturing. When Alan approached Glenn in 1985 and asked for his help, both brothers figured the collaboration would be a good one. "We started doing together what we'd been doing separately," Glenn says, "me the processes, Alan the materials...