Word: slipshod
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...generally slipshod, by-any-means-necessary approach to the organizing of the affair resulted in several unfortunate decisions. Most heinous was the decision to save money on security detail by giving a cadre of Hell's Angels free beer to protect the stage-a move that ultimately resulted in vicious beatings, Jefferson Airplane's lead singer Marty Balin getting knocked unconscious and one ferocious stabbing death. Some of the film's best and most chilling moments display the palpable tension as drunken bikers thuggishly stomp around the stage while vacuous tripping hippies wave their hands and the performers look particularly...
...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...