Word: slipshodness
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...might have been a scene from a TV courtroom drama. At the Sixth World Congress of Sexology in Washington, pioneering Sex Therapists William Masters and Virginia Johnson called a press conference to defend themselves against charges that their sex research is cryptic, slipshod and so vaguely defined that other experts cannot tell how many patients have actually been cured of their sexual woes. Have the two ever revealed their criteria for successful sex therapy? asked a reporter. "Innumerable times," answered an exasperated Masters. Did he ever reveal-sotto voce in a San Francisco bar-that a woman...
...linking Moscow to the plot. Even many Western analysts, while convinced that the Soviets often act through Bulgarian proxies, believe the assassination attempt was too sloppy to have been directed by the KGB. Says a West German intelligence official: "I cannot believe that the KGB would do something so slipshod and unprofessional. Why would the KGB be so stupid as to leave Bulgarians who were closely involved in the thing hanging around Rome, waiting to be arrested...
...tiny minority of Viet Nam veterans were exposed to Agent Orange. Yet the Veterans Administration's handling of the issue has ranged from indifferent to slipshod, and serves for the veterans as a vivid example of Government callousness. Dioxin, the toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, has been linked with skin diseases, birth defects and cancer. Yet, according to reports last month by both the General Accounting Office and the Office of Technology Assessment, the VA has been inexcusably reluctant to study the effects of Agent Orange and has provided only cursory, inadequate medical exams...
...variety of performers she finds who embody her standards. They may be hoofers or acrobats or even movie actors. About the very best- George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov- she can write truly rhapsodic prose, an act of daring in itself. About the pretentious, the emptily theatrical or the slipshod, she can be funny or downright outraged...
...community in general." On the first score HRE has failed and according to Silverman, it has little hope of success for at least "several years." The second point continues to be debated by Harvard officials, who perceive improvement, and tenants, who see erratic heating systems, poor insulation, slipshod workmanship, and inflated rents...