Word: slipshod
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...slippery astro-turf is an unknown factor that will hinder passing coordination between the offense and the defense and may turn the game into a slipshod affair where freak goals make the difference...
...eight seasons the A.F.L. has been cast in the embarrassing role of Sunday's stepchild. Truth be told, the league deserved its billing. Compared with the precision and poise of the N.F.L., A.F.L. teams have looked slipshod and sophomoric. Their subservience was under scored in the first two Super Bowl games when the Green Bay Packers handily dispatched the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 and the Oakland Raiders 33-14. Last year N.F.L. teams trounced the A.F.L. in the first round of interleague exhibition play, winning 13 of 16 games...
...Justice Hugo Black, such reasoning was slipshod and full of "semantic camouflage." Many of the 470 men now waiting on the death rows of the 41 states that still inflict capital punishment will be affected by the ruling, and Black thought it unlikely that they, or any future defendants, would ever be condemned by a jury with members who had any scruples at all against capital punishment. Such men, said Black, "will seldom if ever vote to impose the death penalty. This is just human nature. If this court is to hold capital punishment unconstitutional, it should do so forthrightly...
...order trading in any stock halted, feel that the Amex antics are now "entirely out of line," they seem satisfied with Saul's own policing efforts. After all, it was Saul himself who a few years ago wrote an SEC report blasting the Amex for its slipshod ways of controlling its members. Now he faces a whole new effort to erase its image as a casino...
Coburn's real opposition is neither the underdressed Amazons who want to pursue him nor the overplayed villains who try to undo him. It is the same slipshod kind of script that nearly stoned the first cast and this time ensures a sparkless Flint...