Word: haphazard
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...submitted more than 100 briefs to the Supreme Court. Among the cases in which he has been involved: Ernesto Miranda, Martin Luther King, Gary Gilmore. In 1972, with Amsterdam representing 450 of the 600 convicts on death row, the Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia that the haphazard enforcement of capital punishment was unconstitutional. Now that the court has upheld some death-penalty laws, he says his strategy is to fight "to keep as few people from getting killed as possible." As a teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally stressing legal theory, law schools fail to offer students...
...Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, found that no single agency has final authority for U.S. participation in the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and the world-wide attempt to conquer hunger. Senator Charles Percy, ranking Republican committee member, said U.S. resources that are "spent in a haphazard and uncoordinated way would appear to contribute more to the growth of an international bureaucracy than to the elimination of world hunger...
...Express was the sobriquet coined for these three linemates who have brought the hockey heritage of the Alberta prairies to the Crimson this season. "It just happened that the coach wanted to put us together and it just happened that we're all from Edmontion." Dea said. Despite its haphazard origins, the Edmonton Express is a tag that evokes the scoring chemistry and charisma of the immortal lines of hockey's heyday--Montreal's Punch Line, Toronto's Kid Line, Detroit's Production Line, Boston's Kraut Line, and New York's Gag Line...
Dole has managed to remain unruffled despite occasionally haphazard scheduling. Once he was stranded at a Kentucky horse farm for an hour, talking to a single man-the manager. The candidate tries to shrug it off. Asked if he had a campaign plan, Dole once said, "No, I just have an airplane...
Betty and Adolf, as they call each other on and off stage, have worked together since 1938, when they began performing with Judy Holliday at a then-obscure club in New York called the Village Vanguard. "It was very haphazard," Comden reminisced backstage last weekend. "We all thought of the Vanguard as a stopgap. We kept on looking for work," Green came in, almost on cue--the two seem to collaborate even on their conversation: "Suddenly all the reviews, all the seven papers there were in the City, started saying great things. People began coming from all over...