Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting three years ago, the council hadbeen kicked out of its meeting space and had tocrowd into the Loker coffeehouse, At midnight,with around 20 people present, Nelson said thecouncil mad a "very slipshod decision...
They are instead chosen: 1) because their adviser is teaching the class; 2) because their dissertation topic could be a marginal footnote in the course being taught; 3) because they asked first. This slipshod method of choosing teaching fellows benefits only their pocketbooks and certainly not the students they teach...
Even some of the tank crews were made up of men who had never trained together. The slipshod organization produced not just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...
...Clinton Administration hopes to succeed by driving a wedge between the military men who control the government and the business elite who support them. "Up to now," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, "because of the slipshod nature of sanctions enforcement, an awful lot of the Haitian establishment not only could live with the embargo but, perversely, quite a few were profiting from...
...failed in his entrance examination, the boy who lacks one or two credits for college entrance, the boy who has fallen behind through slipshod methods of instruction, who needs better 'foundationing,' finds able tutors here, ready to give him special attention," reads a brochure 30 years later...