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Word: shoddiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Disease outbreaks spread by mosquitoes, dirty water and poor sanitation were among the World Health Organization's biggest concerns after a devastating cyclone hit Burma, home to one of the world's shoddiest health care systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Reels as Storm Toll Rises | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...purpose that this would serve is to better inform professors’ hiring decisions when it comes to recruiting top TFs for their courses. Often, the shoddiest TFs are those that are hired at the last minute, when course enrolment exceeds what professors had anticipated. Pre-registration would diminish the need for faculty members to guess the number of students they’ll attract and the number of TFs they’ll require, and would lead to significant improvements in the quality of the instructors that wind up teaching undergraduate sections. By making the process formal...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: A Little Knowledge | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...remake No. 2 must be "the most wretched place in the world" (some might have said a Von Trier movie set, but Leth chooses Mumbai, formerly Bombay). When the filmmakers have a chat about their mutual hatred for animation, Von Trier decides that remake No. 4 be the shoddiest possible cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Five Difficult Pieces | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...postcards featuring Mongla's ladyboys in nipple-revealing evening wear. They starred in the official Mongla calendar, too. January showed a dazzling ladyboy swinging in the crook of an elephant's trunk; December had two ladyboys badly superimposed against a New Hampshire autumn. It was by far the cheapest, shoddiest, tackiest souvenir I had ever seen. I bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burmese Daze | 1/28/2001 | See Source »

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