Word: haphazard
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...Salk vaccine, plus all its regular outlays for care of patients (estimated to top $33.5 million), education and research. Though doctors still disagree on the value of gamma globulin, the foundation had to buy up most of the year's output and control its distribution, or haphazard use would have ruined the Salk vaccine test. Meanwhile, the foundation was reduced to asking hospitals to carry polio patients on credit...
...unpleasant and undemocratic, but unusual in its speedy efficiency. Mohammed Mossadegh's elections in early 1952 were equally rigged, bloodier (50 died), but more happily haphazard. Zahedi, Premier in a hurry, has no time to be haphazard. And while he is winning no popularity contests, he seems to be winning the race for his people's future...
...with hydrogen replacing a chlorine atom in the molecule), and of a multibiotic. a triple-threat combination of streptomycin, bacitracin and polymyxin, for external use only. But there was also plenty of talk of deleterious effects. Boston's Dr. Ethan Allan Brown called today's enthusiastic but haphazard use of antibiotics "appalling." It is misleading, he said, to speak only of patients whose deaths are recorded as resulting from reactions to antibiotics. There are more deaths, said Dr. Brown, which do not get into print. Still more numerous are serious reactions short of death. Finally, there are countless...
Because the great bulk of Roger Williams' thoughts were both written and printed in a haphazard fashion, American Literature Professor Perry Miller did necessary and extensive editing to make the tracts readable. He has done so in an expert and conscientious way, clarifying considerably the flowery intricacies of Williams' prose...
Because of this disparity--too much money to some students, too little to others--the scholarship office three years ago decided to junk the old rule and introduced instead a more probing system which incorporates more facts and less haphazard chance into the final stipend...