Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been shockingly mismanaged and is sorely lacking in vision. Private efforts, counter some in the public project, are pirate operations that seek to lock critical segments of God's genomic handiwork behind a barricade of patents. Beyond that, they say, speeding up the pace of discovery could lead to slapdash, incomplete results. "If this is the book of life," sniffs Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, in Bethesda, Md., and one of the leaders of the federal Human Genome Project, "we should not be satisfied with a lot of mistakes or holes...
...there's nothing to suggest that things are nearly so dire: DNA fingerprinting has been used for years, and so far it is only wrongdoers who have real cause to wish it hadn't. But when it comes to scientific advances, human beings have often been a slapdash species--racing out ahead with a new technology before fully appreciating its power. If DNA fingerprinting should get into the wrong hands, society's law-abiding members may find they have more in common with its lawbreakers than they ever dreamed possible...
There has been a slapdash quality to this matter ever since it landed in Congress's hands. Whatever misgivings people had about Starr's process and tactics were merely an overture to these past four weeks, in which again and again the Republican leaders signaled that they were determined to Uphold the Rule of Law, even if they had to burn it down in the process. Starr's report was published before any lawmakers had even read it, much less edited it to protect innocent bystanders. Clinton's supposedly secret grand jury testimony was released after a party-line vote...
...vice versa. Takes you back to the snazzy sex melodramas of the '50s (Ross Hunter and Otto Preminger, by way of Grace Metalious). Alas, nostalgia ain't what it used to be. The Stephen Peters script is twisty but vacant of character, and John McNaughton's direction is coarse, slapdash, without the saving spark of low art or high camp. If Wild Things deserves a kind word, it would be another adjective that has long been in mothballs. Remember "lurid...
...Quote of the Day: "You can't do a slapdash job of the trial of the man who is the world's main terrorist," said Ilich's new lawyer. He'd ditched his old attorneys on Friday...