Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Baum said that the haphazard creation of federal aid programs, which has occurred through piecemeal legislative action since the 1950s, is responsible for the system’s convoluted structure...
...been a principled gadfly objecting to the pork-making process. For example, McCain has consistently voted against Army Corps of Engineers water projects, Capitol Hill's most popular form of pork; he and Democrat Russell Feingold have fought a quixotic battle to reform the dysfunctional Corps and the haphazard process by which its projects are funded. McCain has even argued that water pork contributed to the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, another argument I have made. But that fealty to principle has required him to vote against funding for the Everglades and new levees for New Orleans, as well...
...point in the eight years of George W. Bush's presidency: the drowning of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And true, Gustav turned what would have been a celebratory atmosphere on the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Monday into a haphazard fund-raiser for storm victims devoid of any upbeat rallying...
...ragtag outsiders, buddies and true believers in McCain who will play hard and play to win. Then after hours, instead of sipping martinis, they seek out beer to drink like college kids. Like nearly everything else in McCain's life, Salter and Schmidt are a team that can seem haphazard, a tad risky, even a little unlikely. But McCain wouldn't have it any other...
...knew inspections were haphazard, but some of the examples were simply ludicrous. In 1995 Delta Airlines planes underwent nearly 13,000 inspections--but received only seven violations. The inspectors rarely did the paperwork necessary to follow up on the few problems they uncovered...