Word: haphazard
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...several Hong Kong investors left in frustration. The Ford and Mitsubishi distributor in Hong Kong and the Chinese set up a joint venture to assemble trucks and buses in Shenzhen. But the plant has become a heavy money loser, operating at only a fraction of potential output because of haphazard management and the lack of skilled workers...
Their resentment is only sharpened by the haphazard development of the islands over the past two decades. Between 1970 and 1980, the population of Hawaii registered its greatest increase ever. Around Honolulu, subdivisions have sprung up on land once covered by pineapple plants and sugar cane. On Maui, the once pristine coastline between Lahaina and Kaanapali is now studded with hotels and condominiums. Says Kazu Morita, 62, a third-generation Japanese Hawaiian who owns a gas station on Kauai: "When we were kids, we could go through anybody's property to the sea. Now they've built houses...
THERE COMES A point in Absent Without Love when you realize just how haphazard the creative imagination is. It happens when the cast is singing and dancing the show's centerpiece. "A Pair O' Lips Now," a silly play on Coppola's Vietnam epitaph A pair o' lips now...Apocalypse Now...obviously it has something to do with war. And lips. And music. The ideas spin off the wordplay like sparks: World War Two, our last celebrational war: a U.S.O. troupe, those impetuous combat comedians: lips, something to do with lips. One suspects the pun came first and the show...
...general, Newlove's treatment of the thirsty talent in the room is too haphazard to sustain any conclusions about writers and alcohol that would not apply to computer programmers. But like improvisational jazz, the book works because of its looseness. The Newlove sound is robust and swinging, the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is in toxication enough...
...with CRR stems not from its "tainted" origin, but from its shadowy nature. CRR appears to give students some voice in handling of a subset of disciplinary cases, but CRR has in reality no clear jurisdiction and could be easily circumvented. The method of selection of student representatives is haphazard...