But if the contractor leaves your apartment in a shoddy condition, then you have the right to bring in somebody to repair the damages at the corporation's expense.

And what if you and the board be unable to agree on what is a shoddy condition and who is responsible?

Robert Shanley, president of the Friends of Riverside Park Track and Infield, said he hoped the track and infield, which he said was in shoddy condition, would be refurbished.

When apparel was delivered in shoddy condition, with crooked seams, poorly finished buttonholes or other problems, correcting the problems almost always meant returning the goods to the factory, a time-consuming process.

The Army's top medical officer was forced into retirement Monday, yet another aftereffect of the disclosure of shoddy conditions for outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

In the shoddy conditions, the Raiders used a deliberate attack rather than trying to beat the Chiefs with big plays.

New Jersey is spending too much money on new highways and too little on repairing roads in shoddy condition, according to a report released last week by transportation advocacy groups.

The pipeline is in such shoddy condition that it is too dangerous to inspect.

Downie's mantra-reflected in routine stories as well as such Pulitzer-winning efforts as the 2007 exposé of shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center-was "accountability journalism."

In February 2007, The Washington Post ran a series of articles about the shoddy conditions maintained at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.