People in Greater Manchester will pay higher council tax due to a "botched and shoddy deal", a cabinet minister has claimed.
In September Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, expelled managers of Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineering company which he accuses of bribery and shoddy construction of a power plant.
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Still, a mistake by a spotter or shoddy pit work can always play a role in a race this big.
But the heart of the matter was much smaller: a shoddy way of dealing with expenses.
In other words, says Anholt, all the nation branding in the world won't help a country that's selling a shoddy product.
The horrible disaster in Bangladesh, where hundreds lost their lives as a shoddy building collapsed onto the various workforces, forces us to face an unpleasant truth.
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Shoddy kicking was a feature of the encounter, Danny Cipriani missing a number of penalty attempts on his first start since breaking a leg in October.
Jared Falcon has been in and out of institutions his whole life, but managed to write and record more than 300 songs in the late '80s on a shoddy tape recorder.
Even a 12-inch Powerbook with an Airport Extreme card installed fared little better, though we found some hotspots that we pray don't indicate a shoddy pour when the place was being built.
The area around the Falls is a jumble of failed attempts at urban renewal a bankrupt mall, a foreclosed Native American museum, a shoddy row of cheap attractions, handmade signs and pushcarts selling samosas and souvenir sweatshirts.
If the NFL were run on these principles, of course, and offered such a shoddy product, their stadiums would be empty, no one would watch on television and the TV contracts would be canceled, along with the sponsorship deals.
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Conceivably, he hears about it when a secretary gets shoddy service while buying sneakers in the Finish Line or another employee comes across a great wireless gadget over the weekend.
For sure, Towa is a little shoddy looking and in many ways is far from being paradise on earth.
It cites shoddy due diligence, a lack of synergy between the two companies, too little planning and lousy execution of deals.
The only time I recall being scornful of shoddy goods was when a huge brick smokestack fell on and obviously killed the hero of a serial, "Don Winslow of the Navy, " and the following week's installment began with Commander Don emerging from a mountain of rubble.
But the prevalence of diet products and hair loss remedies gives rise to the impression that infomercials sell a lot of shoddy wares.
Put simply, a marriage founded on shoddy finances is as unstable as any business enterprise, and for young couples, every dollar truly counts.
The U.S. State Department is accused of shoddy recordkeeping and outright mismanagement of a billion-dollar contract to train the police force in Iraq.
Wing Tom Beim was the next grateful recipient of shoddy tackling, touching down for a try that Mannix improved, before he slotted yet another penalty.
When done poorly, the cliffhanger is all about shoddy craftsmanship, the creepy manipulation by a storyteller who has run out of tricks.
The highlight of the day, though, has nothing to do with shoddy equipment and everything to do with a crazy voter who attacked a Diebold-brand machine in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Ironic though it may seem, we might just owe Newsweek a debt of gratitude for its shoddy reportage.
No less than Pollan, he is a connoisseur, exercised more by shoddy workmanship than by shoddy working conditions.
Mrs Saidi says the country's shoddy telephone system makes logging on to the internet a headache.
Some of the teams' hotels, particularly in a northern city, Tamale, were shoddy, and all were absurdly expensive.
Chinese authorities have stepped up food inspections in recent years after a series of scandals over fake or shoddy goods.
Despite a reputation for impatience, Italians are a docile bunch when faced with the shoddy and pricey service that their banks often provide.
There lies a classic recipe for trouble: overstretched management, shoddy work or delay, payment disputes with the client, and no huge reward ahead to keep bankers happy as time and costs mount.
John Paulson, who made his fortune betting against shoddy mortgages and the financial institutions that packaged and traded them a few years ago, turned heads in 2009 when he bought up stakes in the likes of Bank of America.
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However shoddy the deal that has been done, Mr Tsvangirai can make a difference.
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