Word: workmanship
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...notorious incident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island generating station, the business of nuclear power in America was still in disarray, and it has turned out to be anything but cheap. The industry is plagued by searing cost overruns, unfinished plants, waste-disposal problems and environmental suits, shoddy workmanship, tricky technology, constantly changing safety regulations, disillusioned shareholders, weak political support and public mistrust...
...echoed without conviction. Harvard students accept their role on the assembly line. We do not see evidence of inequity and oppression in the policies of University administrators. We do not translate our self-doubt into a political ideology of dissent. Instead, we strive to overcome doubt with methodical academic workmanship. We define our accomplishments within existing parameters and rarely question those limits...
Some Unsuitable Workmanship Flaws that canceled the space walks during Columbia's flight...
...think what's most disturbing about success is that it's very hazardous to your health, as well as to your daily routine. Not only are there intrusions on your time, but there is a kind of corrosion of your own humility and sense of necessary workmanship. You get the idea that anything you do is in some way marvelous...
...that he knows full well what will be expected of him as a mature ruler. The notion that he is a pretender as well as the Pretender has upset many critics (Quiller-Couch went so far as to brand the speech Shakespeare's "most damnable piece of workmanship"). But it can make sense of one perceives that there are two Hals. Good OF Hal, and the Prince (it is instructive to compare the off stage and on-stage Mozart...