Word: haphazard
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...challenging established firms with exuberance and even effrontery are the builders of conglomerates?those multipurpose, multi-industry companies that specialize in hodgepodge acquisitions. They are often put together in a seemingly haphazard tangle, with only finances for a common bond. In the modern conglomerate, oil and water do mix. So do steel and airlines, theaters and tobacco, chemicals and clothes, meat-packing and insurance. Such unlikely combinations have repeatedly paid off?at least...
...back him up only too well: the nationwide rate of black illegitimacy has increased from 23.6% to 29.4% in the interim. But the Moynihan report was attacked by Negro leaders, including James Farmer, the recently named Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who charged that Moynihan had used "haphazard judgment" and stacked figures that glossed over white promiscuity...
During a practice session seven years ago, the Chicago Black Hawks' Stan Mi-kita split the flat, straight blade of his hockey stick into a haphazard V-shape...
...first meeting, the council formed ten subgroups, each to deal with specific problem areas such as crime, housing, welfare and mass transit. "The American national Government," said Nixon, "has responded to urban concerns in a haphazard, fragmented and often woefully shortsighted manner." He challenged the council to change all that with firm, coordinated policy recommendations. The President also assigned Budget Director Robert Mayo to draw up proposals for allocating federal funds after Viet...
Easy Terms. The Ray case illustrates the fact that a great many legal issues must be resolved before underwater territory can be developed. Last week a special Government commission, headed by former M.I.T. President Julius Stratton, deplored the present haphazard approach to exploiting the oceans. One proposal of Stratton's group attempts to revive the spirit of homesteading. To encourage aquaculture, recreation projects and other uses of the sea, the commission recommended the leasing of submerged lands on easy terms to small investors. It proposes to call the arrangement "seasteading...