Word: slipshod
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Gwirtzman said he was not sure exactly how much money had been stolen at the other two performances. "The system had been so slipshod we couldn't be sure how much the total was," he said...
...good novel might have been written on Miss Buck's theme, a good one on Ullman's. Neither writer has succeeded. Both are content with liberal formulas, stillborn characters, slipshod styles...
Crystal Balls. A veteran adman and onetime vice president in charge of sales at Coca-Cola, Steele knew what was wrong with Pepsi when he took over. The accounting system was so slipshod that management did not even know the production figures of some of its biggest bottlers, or the breakdown of its costs. Says Steele: "They were operating by gazing into a crystal ball." Steele brought in a bunch of old Coca-Cola hands, set up a detailed method of cost accounting. He slashed costs by eliminating executive bonuses (he incorporated his own in his $96,000-a-year...
...part of it. The atom bomb, more than anything else, showed the U.S. that (in Adler's words) "the more science we have the more we are in need of wisdom to prevent its misuse." Reinhold Niebuhr expressed a growing uneasiness in the U.S. conscience over confused and slipshod morality. Arnold Toynbee found wide response when he attacked the easy optimism which regards history as an endless escalator to progress rather than a continuing struggle between good & evil. The Harvard report on U.S. education (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945) signaled a serious drive in more & more U.S. universities...
...Letdown. The Aussies had cannily broken up this invincible pair in an earlier tournament in order, they said later, to make the U.S. team overconfident. In the match, Schroeder and Trabert did not suffer from overconfidence; they suffered from Schroeder's slipshod play. Schroeder was the only player on the court to lose his service, four times in all. Although generally considered a slam-bang player, Schroeder scored only three placements. Trabert had 17, McGregor had 19, and the indefatigable Sedgman had 24. The Aussies won handily...