Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the English department puts it, is veneer. Yes, there is a library, but it is very small, and woefully ill-equipped for serious research. Yes, there is a bookstore with an extensive selection of sweatshirts and greeting cards, but the only books open for browsing are a haphazard batch of used paperbacks on a card table at the rear of the store. Many of the courses listed and described in the catalogue year after year are simply never given...
...Kempe, who has long been concerned by the dangers of wholesale, haphazard vaccinations (TIME, May 20), has been working for 20 years to devise a safer vaccine. To the American Pediatric Society in Atlantic City he reported the success that he and his colleague have achieved. Starting with a standard strain of cowpox virus grown in calves, they repeatedly grew it in a series of fertilized eggs. The vaccine from the virus harvested from the last eggs in the series had about the same potency as the standard calf-lymph material and could be given by the usual multiple-puncture...
...playing to audiences of 20 to 200 daily, the "live-in" has been a series of haphazard happenings-arguments, jam sessions, talkathons-as well as plain old views of the Schultz family eating, watching TV, reading, and chatting on the telephone. As theater, Life is worth leaving; as peep show, it is an offbeat, sometimes curiously intriguing look at the denizens of bohemia caged, as it were, in their natural habitat. Among their most pressing problems are housekeeping and housebreaking the dogs. Just when things might get interesting, the mutts have the distressing habit of upstaging the cast by urinating...
...Haphazard as it was, Bean's business had as invaluable assets his own Yankee frugality and early-American honesty. When somebody suggested that he carry $70 eiderdown parkas, Bean snapped that hunters would only be wasting their money on a coat that expensive. Instead of pushing new sales, he urged customers to return worn-out Maine Hunting Shoes for refurbishing. Throwing away used boots, he advised, "is about the same as throwing away a five-dollar bill...
...week, the Kiesinger government has given repeated assurances that it will push hard for a stabilization law establishing budgetary controls. Meanwhile, the country's economic woes are bringing about other much-needed changes. With profits suddenly more elusive, German businessmen have begun to streamline their often inefficient and haphazard operations. Recession-minded workers are taking pains to increase productivity while cutting down their chronic absenteeism. At the same time, there has been a belated realization that something has to be done about the structure of the coal and steel industries, which have, thanks to unrealistic government subsidies, long overproduced...