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Lamft had come to the meeting at the request of the council to discuss ongoing problems with the postal service, which has drawn frequent complaints during the past year for slipshod mail delivery...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Workers Slam Post Office Reorganization | 11/27/1990 | See Source »

...cool strategic thinker, a shrewd businessman and cunning marketer. He plans each detail of his productions down to the last frame, in part, says Ross, to counter the racial stereotype that blacks are slipshod businessmen. His marketing sense extends beyond his proven ability to reach an audience; he has cultivated a brand awareness of himself. Making a movie isn't enough, he says. "We're up against the giants trying to hold our own." Stacks of Do the Right Thing T shirts were poised ready for distribution before the film opened. A journal chronicling the making of the film, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIKE LEE: He's Got To Have It His Way | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

GIVEN the complexity of the ROTC debate, we are extremely disappointed with the slipshod proceedings which have characterized the Undergraduate Council's action. Few council members understood anything about the past experience of ROTC on campus and the implications of its return. The academics committee, for example, approved the resolution without even considering ROTC's anti-gay discrimination. And the relevance of the council's constitution was never significantly addressed. The council chair himself has since called the resolution unconstitutional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Never Again | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...raise questions for a long time to come. Almost as soon as The Miami Herald reported the liason between Gary Hart and model Donna Rice, Hart countered by questioning the Herald's handling the story. Hart claimed, among other things, that the Herald's surveillance of his townhouse was slipshod and that no attempt was made to interview those involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Now Watch the Watchdog | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...thorough background investigation might have turned up the hospitalization anyway. Yet a Government source says none of the three agencies empowered to screen NSC nominees -- the FBI, the Secret Service and the office of the White House counsel -- learned about it. NSC screenings were frequently slipshod, says the source. "There were security violations. Some people were never investigated at all." Another source of potential information is the "outpatient treatment record" that every member of the military has to carry. In North's case, several pages dealing with his hospitalization were removed. When and by whom is a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Other Secret | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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