Word: sloppyness
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A '60s civil rights activist and disciple of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson founded Operation PUSH, a black self-help group based in Chicago, in 1971. He has never held elected political office. "He has certain qualities that would make him a good candidate," says James...
For his part, the scientist will have nothing to do with such assertions. Acknowledging his involvement with the 1972 treaty, he states, somewhat testily: "I have never let it compromise my standards of accuracy. And in fact it's the other way around. It's the fact that my standards...
And a lot of the men took care of their own. At midnight, with beer fairly boiling on the hot sidewalks, you'd see a sarge walking a sloppy corporal back to the ship, the sarge's hand cupping the drunk's elbow to steady him but...
Until last week, when reporters assigned to Central America have talked of trouble and danger, they have nearly always meant El Salvador. Said Peter Eisner, the Central America news editor for Associated Press: "The focus of fighting has been there." In San Salvador, reporters sometimes face searches of their apartments...
But Sotheby's has been in deep trouble, brought on by sloppy management and overexpansion of its British and Manhattan auction houses during the heady late 1970s, when the auction business was booming. In its last fiscal year, Sotheby's lost $5.3 million on revenues of $92.2 million...