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  • Do a slip-shod job in off-shore wells, and you end up with devasting spills.

    Dr. Cara Barker: An Equinox Prescription for Love, This Autumn 2010

  • We all laughed at and derided the McCain campaign for their slip-shod non-vetting of Sarah Palin.

    Tom Daschle, Survivor 2010

  • Do a slip-shod job in off-shore wells, and you end up with devasting spills.

    Dr. Cara Barker: An Equinox Prescription for Love, This Autumn 2010

  • Four years later hurricane Katrina revealed how slip-shod, mismanaged, uncoordinated, lackadaisical that agency still was.

    Hurricane Katrina 2007

  • And, not that the literate readers of this blog need reminding but just because you seem to have a slip-shod relationship with reality, this wasn't the ACLU telling Bush it had concerns with some program, it was the Attorney General, an office which has been damningly and notoriously compliant with White House requests.

    Balkinization 2007

  • He accuses me of "slip-shod and inaccurate hyperbole," and says that he, too, is disgusted with some things done by Harry Reid, e.g., allowing certain votes to confirm certain appointments.

    Hillary And Obama Campaigns At War Over Bill's Iraq Comments 2009

  • Again, stop with the slip-shod and inaccurate hyperbole.

    Hillary And Obama Campaigns At War Over Bill's Iraq Comments 2009

  • It stopped reading like a well-crafted, subtle, adult-fantasy and started feeling more like a slip-shod kids book, with magical elements thrown in to impress and awe rather than to serve any useful purpose in the story.

    Today in Fantasy: October 5, 2009 Jeff C 2009

  • And, not that the literate readers of this blog need reminding but just because you seem to have a slip-shod relationship with reality, this wasn't the ACLU telling Bush it had concerns with some program, it was the Attorney General, an office which has been damningly and notoriously compliant with White House requests.

    Balkinization 2007

  • And, not that the literate readers of this blog need reminding but just because you seem to have a slip-shod relationship with reality, this wasn't the ACLU telling Bush it had concerns with some program, it was the Attorney General, an office which has been damningly and notoriously compliant with White House requests.

    Balkinization 2007

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