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...world's highway Goliath become the superpower of potholes? A major reason is that in its haste, America built on the cheap. Across the nation, state and local governments have tended to award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, often meaning they got the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work. In addition, the Federal Government has encouraged neglect by subsidizing new construction or major restructuring at 90 cents to the dollar but awarding no subsidies for maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why America Has So Many Potholes | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Your March 20th editorial entitled "Common-sense Economics" is one of the shoddiest commentaries which The Crimson has printed in many months. The editorial is not merely internally inconsistent, but the remedies it proposes are dangerously naive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dangerously Naive' | 4/1/1980 | See Source »

...Wolff's Duke of Deception seems to belong to this nightmares-in-the-nursery trend. But the initial likenesses are misleading; unlike his fellow excavators of the past, Wolff's maturity enables him to emerge--after a respectable period of thrashing--from the muck. He unflinchingly lays out the shoddiest episodes of a shameful upbringing, yet from this scrutiny he extracts a peace with that segment of his life over which he had no control...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Friday's story, by J. Wyatt Emmerich, implied (beginning with its headline, "Republican Club Admits Error in Accusation") that the Club had withdrawn its objections to the Constitution. This is completely inaccurate and is the shoddiest piece of journalism we have ever seen: interviews with two Republican Club officers were attributed to one person, no one was quoted accurately or meaningfully and despite what Emmerich reported, neither the Republican Club nor the HRGSA has ever met with Mike Desaulniers, or even heard of him, and if anyone deserves an apology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans, Gays on Constitution | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...unresponsive to journalists. During the early months of the Watergate investigation, he turned brusque. At first he dismissed the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters as a "third-rate burglary." He responded to some of the Washington Post's revelations by charging "character assassination" and "the shoddiest kind of journalism." Often his answers seemed deliberately unclear or misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Roughing Up Ron | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

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