Word: slipshodness
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...27th Communist Party Congress, scheduled for next February. His retirement before that date reinforced the impression of Western observers that Gorbachev is determined to overhaul the Soviet economy, for which the Premier is at least nominally responsible. Last June, Gorbachev publicly excoriated four ministers, who reported to Tikhonov, for slipshod work and failure to rectify bureaucratic shortcomings. Nonetheless, Tikhonov in his resignation letter praised "the warm, comradely atmosphere that has been created in the Politburo lately...
...number of reasons. Despite the assistance of several thousand Cuban military advisers, the Nicaraguan army suffers from "poor command and control," according to a U.S. military expert. Moreover, many Sandinista commanders prefer to stand off and lob rockets and shells rather than close with the enemy. Training is also slipshod: Nicaraguan draftees commonly enter the field after only two or three days of preparation...
Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was in a no-nonsense mood last week as he addressed an audience of his country's top political, industrial and < scientific leaders at Communist Party headquarters a few blocks from the Kremlin. The General Secretary continued the haranguing of the slipshod Soviet economy that he has made his theme since he took office last March. This time, though, Gorbachev went a good deal further. As aging apparatchiks, most of them the appointees of the late Leonid Brezhnev, shifted uncomfortably in their seats, he singled out members of the Soviet bureaucracy by name to deliver...
These rules governing: ACSR selection appear to have been applied in a slipshod manner at least in recent years...
That was hardly a compelling excuse for the slipshod embassy security (see box), especially since there had been public threats from a terrorist group that it would attack U.S. installations in Beirut. Moreover, the previous truck-bomb assaults (at the original West Beirut embassy on April 18, 1983, and the Marine headquarters near the airport last Oct. 23) should have been lesson enough that greater security was needed...