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...first day as a New York Knick to applause far louder than team and union leader Patrick Ewing got. And now Sprewell, who is leading his bottom-seeded team in an unprecedented run toward the NBA finals, symbolizes the entire league. After a shortened season filled with the sloppiest play since the ABA, the Knicks are thriving on the wildness that has been this season's leitmotiv...
...world's highway Goliath become the superpower of potholes? A major reason is that in its haste, America built on the cheap. Across the nation, state and local governments have tended to award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, often meaning they got the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work. In addition, the Federal Government has encouraged neglect by subsidizing new construction or major restructuring at 90 cents to the dollar but awarding no subsidies for maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying...
...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...