Word: haphazard
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...studied hospital records in South Vietnam to try to see if dioxin or another chemical herbicide, 2,4,5-T, were implicated in birth defects. Because of the scarcity of data on birth defects and the haphazard way most of them are collected, the HAC found it very difficult to find reliable information. Precise information on quantities of herbicide sprayed, the type of herbicide used, and the location of each spraying mission is classified confidential by the military and is inaccessible to the HAC researchers. The Commission does have enough information to evaluate the magnitude of the problem, however...
...members were appalled. Zevi called the beehive units an example of "collective hara-kiri," and Kahn complained: "I don't see the principles behind the master plan." When the committee discussed the master plan with Kollek two months ago, it attacked the project's matchbox buildings, haphazard community planning and dehumanization...
...problem confined within city limits. In Westchester and Nassau, two of the richest counties in the nation, the suburban welfare rolls are growing at a rate faster than that of the city itself. Now Lindsay is attempting to bring down the whole haphazard welfare structure, the better to build it anew. He is preparing a legal attack contending that HEW mandates resulting in automatic increases in his welfare budget amount to an illegal, destructive tax by the Federal Government on the city. He says: "Poverty and welfare are national problems; their solution cannot be found at the local level...
...programs have been successful, and are almost universally accepted. Few today would question Social Security retirement benefits; while Medicare had a troubled beginning, it helped establish the principle of national health insurance, which is now substantially backed by both Republicans and Democrats. Yet the whole vast structure remains patched, haphazard and almost impossible to grasp, let alone control?a disorganized welfare state within a state...
That the actual housing shortage will be modified is certain. The lingering question, for Cambridge and other growing cities, is how to deal with the sociological problems which grow out of haphazard solutions...