Word: substandard
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...last spring the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued cease and desist orders against Gregory's five banks, charging unsound practices. State bank examiners said the loan to Robert Stapleton was "substandard"; they initially wrote off the loan to Institutional Development Corp. as a "loss," but it was later repaid. Gregory's bank in Macon County closed in January. Another bank, in Wilcox County, Ala., closed in March. On Good Friday, Gregory and Vonna Jo were indicted on Alabama felony charges that they accepted deposits at a bank that was about to be closed...
...sets Magico on a counter for the disdainful inspection of a stern young man who might be an oral surgeon or IRS agent manqué (22-J). Inspector will variously diagnose the appliance (22-K to 22-Z) as klunky, a lemon, mismanufactured, nonfunctioning, off-brand, plastic, quirky, rachitic, substandard, tinny, unredeemable, valueless, wonky, Xrated, Why-Fix-It? and zapped already...
...emphasis on extracurricular activities works on the assumption that high schools offer a large number of extracurricular activities. But the reality is that many Third World people go to substandard schools. One of the writers of this article went to a high school so overcrowded that athletics were the only activities offered...
...downright shy about it. Speaking before 500 delegates to a White House Conference on balanced growth and development, Busbee uncharacteristically stressed what he did not like about the South: "We still have the greatest percentage of people living in poverty, with less than five years of schooling, living in substandard housing, lacking plumbing, and with more people per room than any other section of this country...
...about being under contract to the repressive Iranian regime. "The kids will enjoy riding the roller coaster and the log flume. This will tend to 'open up' the regime, I think. I have no problem with any sort of torture in this case, save that bore of riding on substandard log flumes or roller coasters...