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Mullen, whose markers were the first of her career, also thought the Northeastern defense slipshod. "They had nobody on the posts," the freshman back said. "That first shot was right on the post. If someone had been there, it probably wouldn't have gone...
...consequently have been growing increasingly skeptical of the reliability of their findings. Now two California psychologists, Bernie Zilbergeld and Michael Evans, in the current issue of Psychology Today, have written the sharpest, most substantial attack yet. "Masters and Johnson's research is so flawed by methodological errors and slipshod reporting that it fails to meet customary standards-and their own-for evaluation research," say Zilbergeld and Evans. "This raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the ten-year-old discipline they created...
Some critics, acting as if the report were an invitation to a national orgy of hamburgers, French fries and junk food, quickly denounced it with such words as "irresponsible," "conspiratorial" and "slipshod." Said Dr. Donald M. Berwick of the Harvard School of Public Health: "The council is not acting in the best interests of the American people." Representative Fred Richmond of New York, chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition, even suggested that lobbyists for the food industry-particularly meat, dairy and egg producers-"must have been at work here...
Reagan himself attributes his slipshod practice to his years on the lecture circuit, when any newspaper story provided him with fodder. "Like any other speaker," he told a CBS interviewer, "I'd see something, and I'd say, 'Hey, that's great,' and use it." Others attribute Reagan's mistakes to poor staffing. Unlike other candidates, he has no well-organized "issues staff" producing accurate position papers or correcting errors. From his loose network of conservative consultants, he has had only two major briefings this year on domestic issues, the last one before...
...transition surprised the musical world and started speculation that Rudel had quarreled with City Opera's board of directors. The company has had some sour notes in recent years. A deep financial crisis?now successfully surmounted?threatened at one point to close the house. Performances have often been slipshod lately, the casting haphazard. Rudel, although tireless, has been away from the house more and more on conducting engagements; he has accepted the directorship of the Buffalo Philharmonic beginning next fall...