Word: haphazard
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...reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...
...instead of re-writing an already questionable paper, you can rest assured that the haphazard junk you put together in a few hours is stored somewhere on your computer and is waiting to be recovered...
...wouldn't call the case a mystery, because he leaves behind voluminous amounts of evidence," says an FBI agent involved in the chase. But suddenly what had been a frustrated and some say haphazard manhunt became a furious one. The FBI offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Cunanan's arrest. On Saturday night, Miami Beach police said they were exploring the possibility that he may be masquerading as a woman to elude capture. "He may have shaved all of his body hair to enhance this appearance," said a spokesman. Cunanan was fingered as a possible suspect...
...powerful argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on executions because "the administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency...
...Hart misses the real problem with Ingraham's public conversion. It's not that it glosses over her prior actions, or wrongly implicates others or smacks of self-congratulation. It's that it is a haphazard, self-limiting approach to public policy--and there's a lot of that going around these days. Hard-nosed budget hawk Senator Pete Domenici, whose daughter has suffered from mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine...