Word: haphazard
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...situation is much the same in the case of the Glee Club. Though it is well known throughout New England, its appearances at Harvard, except in joint performances, are extremely rare, the only regular concerts here being the rather haphazard Spring Yard concerts...
...generally recognized that the present haphazard diversity of procedure frequently results in confusion, unfairness, and lowered standards. In a matter so vital to Harvard's scholarly reputation there seems to good reason why the slightest mystery or uncertainly should prevail. While no system is immune to some measure of abuse or exploitation, we believe that it is possible to establish a tenure system and a democratic procedure, based upon the principle of Departmental autonomy, which will do much to eliminate the uncertainties and inequities of the present methods...
...security problem is a big one for U. S. churches, whose care of their worn-out ministers is a large, often haphazard U. S. business. The 24 denominations of the Church Pensions Conference* have more than $171,000,000 in assets, a total annual income of $15,000,000. They pay nearly $11,000,000 a year to 38,000 clerical pensioners, widows and orphans. How much an individual pensioner gets, after retiring at around 68, depends upon how well-managed his church's pension affairs are. The Episcopal fund, first in the U. S. to be established...
...entrance of formalized government work in the field of social security and relief problems, the machine was at best a palliative. "It worked by hook or by crook. Its rehabilitative influence was accidental rather than purposeful; being essentially a means to an organizational end, it met despondency in a haphazard way, coping with immediate aspects as they presented themselves...
...took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State...