Word: haphazardly
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...Mayor probably senses, no real solution of a city's problems comes out of this haphazard approach...
...with a heavy turnout of 104,000 G.O.P. voters, he gained 78% of the total votes following a campaign masterfully geared to exhibit the former Vice President as the nation's youngest elder statesman. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose cause was belatedly promoted by a haphazard write-in campaign after the abrupt exit of Michigan Governor George Romney, won only 11% of the vote, an unspectacular showing that some Republicans thought might possibly have condemned him to the political penumbra...
This novel brings up such questions because Gore Vidal is a reasonably serious writer: his credentials, if haphazard, are all in order. Although he has taken time out to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1960 and to haunt television panels as a sort of sexy Schlesinger or political Capote, he has always been primarily a working novelist (Julian), playwright (Visit to a Small Planet), and critic (Rocking the Boat...
...that the dollar is inflated beyond its real value, "These measures add up to disguised devaluation," he said in an interview yesterday. Haberler urges that "an open devaluation, preferably in the form of a floating (exchange) rate, would be far better than are disguised in a multitude of haphazard, discriminatory taxes and controls...
Harvard administrators claim that students are listened to and have influence already: "Any good idea will be approved, no matter if it comes from the students, the faculty or Hayes-Bickford." But even communication between students and faculty--the basis of any meaningful contact--is haphazard if not non-existent. Some examples of this occurred this fall. The Committee on the Houses (COH) relied on the CRIMSON to communicate to the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) its decision regarding the HUC's parietals proposal and the HUC's request to meet with the COH. In fact, the official spokesman for this...