Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Compared with life, which is so often messy, chaotic, haphazard, and inconclusive, a football game is a masterpiece of logic and lucid or ganization...