Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never cool about the theater, however. It was his cross, his sword, and his crown. He served it with undeviating grace, wit and loyalty. He could not abide anything professionally slipshod on a stage. Once, when a pair of leading actors loafed self-indulgently through a matinee of one of his musicals, he went backstage and tartly chided their performance as "a triumph of nevermind over doesn't-matter...
...stories of mail lost, delayed or damaged by federal carriers are wearily familiar. They have, if anything, become even more depressing since the USPS was set up 20 months ago to take over from the old Post Office Department. It is no surprise that many businessmen, tired of the slipshod service, are finding private ways to move mail more quickly and cheaply than the Government...
...results, abetted by management policies ranging from the slipshod to the scandalous, were an increase in illicit traffic, a rise in the number of addicts, and a migration of many addicts to cities where clinics existed with consequent disruption of their lives. The medical profession was soon united in vigorous opposition to the clinics, and in 1920 and 1921 two special committees of the American Medical Association strongly condemned these efforts at ambulatory treatment and called upon the government to act. The Treasury Department complied by closing the clinics...
That goal now seems out of sight Indeed, the modular-housing industry is in a state of shock, a victim of bad luck and slipshod planning. Sales, it is true have been climbing-to 120,000 homes last year, from 81,000 in 1971- but they still constitute only about 5% of all housing starts. Profits on this low volume have been so thin that modular housing is now being abandoned by many of its would-be pioneers
...other states, answered unequivocally: "To limit the operation of the E.Q.A. solely to what are essentially public works projects would frustrate the effectiveness of the act." Then the judges went on to excoriate "those who are oblivious to the ecological well-being of society." In other words, the slipshod developers...