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.

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Still, a mistake by a spotter or shoddy pit work can always play a role in a race this big.

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Superstition, shoddy police work, cultural and actual mistranslation were among those forces.

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Three of them were found guilty of carrying out shoddy restoration work in 2000 to the building, in which eight students lost their lives.

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Attention soon turned to alleged shoddy construction work.

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But as I wrote in the piece, the discussion of what most mainstream scientists believe is shoddy and biased work by Howarth is somewhat beside the point.

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Much reconstruction work was shoddy.

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