Word: unsound
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Hutchinson said that the projects were of "a purely academic nature" and that there was no foundation to rumors that the building is structurally unsound. He added that, in his opinion, the building is "incredibly sound...
...unclear whether these politically unsound actions resulted from idealism or selfishness, but in either case the liberal community found itself suddenly faced not only with the realization that McCarthy was not the hero they had envisioned, but also with the recognition that there are no clear-cut boundaries between idealistic, selfish, and political actions...
...hockey practice begins in mid-October less than a month after the start of classes, and the season extends through 24 contests into March. We feel it is academically unsound to thrust freshmen into such a pressurized activity before they have had time to make their academic adjustment." Watson said...
...years' duration) is over. Dennis Hopper has blown it. His directorial debut may have been adolescent; his second movie is puerile. Formless, artless, it is narcissistic but not introspective, psycho but not analytic-a shotgun wedding of R.D. Laing and the Late Show. Its basic idea is not unsound: a movie company shoots a western in the Andes; when it leaves, the peasants mimic the staged violence but cannot separate reality from fantasy...
terized by low yield, high costs, poor management and ineffective incentive structure. Dumont concludes that Cuba's economic woes in 1963 were caused by "bad diffusion [information on] techniques of cultivation, insufficient effort, unsound organization of work, faulty pick up of produce, all of these on top of the harm done by the blockade." In 1964, Dumont claims, these problems were accelerated by an overcentralized economy run by a top heavy bureaucracy. As a result, he stresses the necessity of lower level autonomy or, in Karol's phrase, "grass-roots socialist democracy...