Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Instead of doing this by word-of-mouth, which is the way most of this sort of information is passed, [WISH] will be a more accessible and less haphazard system for doing this," said Margaret H. Robertson '92, the hotline's main organizer...
...Last year the tutorial office didn't make any effort to coordinate the process in any way. It was a pretty haphazard process," Pierson said...
With nowhere else to go, hundreds of evicted Israelis have erected small tent cities in a dozen sites around the country. The canvas tents are often furnished with little more than mattresses and sleeping bags, and toilet facilities are haphazard. The squatters' resentment is increasing along with their number. Last week near Tel Aviv, 70 of the homeless barricaded themselves on a roof, hurled gasoline bombs at the street and threatened mass suicide until Minister of Housing Ariel Sharon promised to listen to their demands and pay a visit to their tent city...
...formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production by half. But hunters risk their lives if they go near enough to shoot the pigs and must rely instead on haphazard metal traps and sisal nets...
Surely, Harvard students should be responsible enough to care for their suites, and failing that responsibility should result in fines. But the haphazard assignment of inflated charges is simply unfair...