Word: haphazard
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HORTON FOOTE'S GIFTS FOR MOOD, DIAlogue and vignette won screenplay Oscars for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies and gave Geraldine Page unforgettable moments in The Trip to Bountiful. But his stage plays suffer from haphazard , structure, predictable plot and an inability to invest poignant incidents with larger significance. These faults beset THE ROADS TO HOME, which opened off- Broadway last week under the author's direction. The cast of nine, an army on the tiny stage, seems thin and the story wan. But Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and the author's daughter Hallie glow as two Texas...
...where sport has become a preeminent form of entertainment. Amid raging debate, in 1981 the word amateur was stricken from the Olympic charter. Unable to kill the sacred calf itself, the I.O.C. turned over eligibility rules to the individual sports federations in 1987, and the transitions that followed were haphazard and often unfair...
...scheduled to pick the winning system in June 1993, and the betting in Washington is that the commission will not miss that deadline by more than a few months. Once the U.S. standard has been set, it will probably be a year before what is now a haphazard collection of off-the-shelf circuit boards -- housed in racks the size of refrigerators -- is reduced to a handful of computer chips that can be sold to manufacturers and stuffed into TV sets. The first commercial receivers could appear on the market in late 1994, but probably will not be widely available...
...response to a problem that lies closer to home, several lawmakers have proposed legislation to beef up the 1974 Privacy Act, the federal law that defends citizens from government misuse of data. Enforcement is haphazard, and loopholes permit agencies to stretch the law. Though the act would appear to forbid it, agencies exchange information on individual citizens in the name of detecting waste, fraud and abuse of benefits. They claim that such exchanges are legal on the ground that the disclosures are "compatible" with the purpose for which the data were collected. Under that loose standard, tax returns are compared...
Solicitation has been transformed from a piecemeal, haphazard affair into a highly centralized, professional operation confident enough to set campaign goals ($2 to $3 billion)unimaginable just 10 years...