Word: haphazard
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...like it or not, man is already controlled by external influences. Some are haphazard; some are arranged by careless or evil men whose goals are selfish instead of humanitarian. The problem, then, is to design a culture that can, theoretically, survive; to decide how men must behave to ensure its survival in reality; and to plan environmental influences that will guarantee the desired behavior. Thus, in the Skinnerian world, man will refrain from polluting, from overpopulating, from rioting, and from making war, not because he knows that the results will be disastrous, but because he has been conditioned to want...
...inevitable problems that this overbreeding creates, particularly in a nation where much of the population is crowded into a narrow ribbon of verdant land astride the life-giving Nile. In both Cairo and Alexandria, the country's two dominant cities, emergency repairs are under way to keep haphazard water, sewage and electricity systems functioning. Last week Sadat promised old age pensions for all Egyptians within a year, and forecast constitutional reform "which will shape our society...
...from the Board. This unstructured management approach did not go over well with the company's founder and major stockholder, 72-year-old Nate Sherman, who is Gordon Sherman's father. Nate had started the firm in 1938, become known for dependable wholesale distribution in a generally haphazard field, and prospered in the postwar auto boom. He built the business into a $3.5-million-a-year operation by the time Son Gordon joined the organization in 1950. Gordon promoted the idea of starting Midas Muffler Shops -franchised retail outlets with specialists in trim uniforms. The Midas idea caught...
...claims that the summaries of the Harvard affirmative action plan released so far do not meet the Federal requirement that the beneficiaries of the plan know what is being done for them. "These Harvard summaries are so vague and haphazard in their references to women that we are not at all sure what steps are being taken to insure equal opportunity," the letter to Kennedy said...
...character, turns out to be the perfect "bourgeois" girl, a virgin before marriage, a domestic. She is nice enough, but she is also a product of the society which Antoine spent his youth trying to outwit. He treats Christine badly in this film, but it is a haphazard cruelty; he picks fights with her over everything from the newly born baby's name to the thank-you letter he must write to the Senator who arranged the installation of their telephone. Antoine is destructive in all this bickering, as well as in his affair, but it is hard to condemn...