The government seized Superior in 2000 after it collapsed because of poor lending practices and shoddy bookkeeping.
And besides, who wants to be known for shoddy build quality and ho-hum designs?
Speaking at the podium, Ms Shaw resigned from the party, describing "secret courts" as "shoddy logic".
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But Gates didn't get to be the world's richest man by overpaying for shoddy technology.
But the heart of the matter was much smaller: a shoddy way of dealing with expenses.
One of these apologies was for intemperance (Nocera) and one for shoddy blogging standards (me).
Mrs Saidi says the country's shoddy telephone system makes logging on to the internet a headache.
Decades of shambolic administration have left a legacy of shoddy infrastructure, tangled bureaucracy and administrative incompetence.
However shoddy the deal that has been done, Mr Tsvangirai can make a difference.
Anita says the original embalming of the body was a badly delayed and shoddy affair.
He has publicly criticised shoddy work on the dam, and cracked down on corruption.
Putting wigs and dresses on chimps is no longer acceptable, nor are shoddy exhibits.
Sceptics say Ethiopia's shoddy infrastructure may make it hard to produce the volumes of shoes required.
Also, the first weeks of operations have been marred by complaints of shoddy products and late deliveries.
Despite the shoddy security default of internet firms, he said, they can impose limits on government surveillance.
The anger of villagers like Wang Ming starts to boil over as they talk about shoddy construction.
They exploited cultural trends and fads, and buried cultural trends and fads with the shoddy facts of themselves.
Ironic though it may seem, we might just owe Newsweek a debt of gratitude for its shoddy reportage.
Schering's manufacturing was so shoddy that it couldn't be sure it hadn't shipped asthma inhalers that were empty.
No less than Pollan, he is a connoisseur, exercised more by shoddy workmanship than by shoddy working conditions.
Some of the teams' hotels, particularly in a northern city, Tamale, were shoddy, and all were absurdly expensive.
Customers bluntly told the chains their service was shoddy, their food subpar and their restaurants, in some cases, shabby.
The shoddy, superficial, tendentious analysis produced by so many financial reporters these days is no accident .
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Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster, Mr Trimble said the campaign against what he called Patten's "shoddy" report would continue.
Leong's attorney, Erlinda Ocampo Johnson, described the investigation as "shoddy, " ''poor" and "inadequate.
But it was only after prolonged political and media clamour that Mr Brown accepted responsibility for the shoddy episode.
In a country where citizens have long suffered shoddy goods and shoddier after-service, Wang quickly became a folk hero.
The workmanship of the construction was often shoddy, and costs always exceeded estimates.
Congo, now undergoing a shoddy election, still looks barely governable and hideously corrupt.
For sure, Towa is a little shoddy looking and in many ways is far from being paradise on earth.
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