Word: sloppiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strangely quiet denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...
Unfortunately, the result was a bill that?whatever its economic merit or lack of same?ranks as one of the sloppiest pieces of legislation ever approved by Congress. It was a shambles of bits and pieces, containing unnumbered pages and handwritten notes. Yet Congress was awed by a President who claimed a mandate for change and had a gift for persuading the public. It tamely adopted a budget that made a mockery of the recent reforms and insulted the legislative process...
...reconciliation bill that changed hundreds of laws, such as those governing food stamp and unemployment benefits, to reduce spending by $35 billion. Both measures were written in the White House; the reconciliation bill was done so hastily that Texas Democrat Jim Wright, the House Majority Leader, called it "the sloppiest piece of draftsmanship I've ever seen-a terrible insult to the Legislative Branch...