Word: haphazardous
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...narrow room, a meter and a half wide, decorated with the awkward minimalism that passes for modern chic in the still Communist world: peeling white paint, tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost...
Student action on campus, however, must come with a full understanding of the issues surrounding the campaign. Efforts cannot be blind or haphazard, or they risk of becoming counterproductive. An uninformed rally or an unprepared debate can do more harm than good. Understanding, by contrast, can inspire ventures into avenues previously unexplored. A large part of the UFW's success is in fact due to its innovation and creativity in dealing with large and impersonal agribusiness companies...
...Webster and Shortridge, Hong Kong's many outdoor markets held the key to why the confirmed cases of H5 were spread in such haphazard fashion throughout Hong Kong. In some cases, the CDC team and health-department investigators were unable to prove direct contact with poultry, which suggested that some of the victims caught the virus through contact so casual they simply weren't aware of it. Says Shortridge: "It suggested to me there was a hell of a lot of virus in the environment that we weren't aware...
According to the committee's chair, Professor of Law Richard D. Parker, "the requirement has been applied in a very haphazard and sometimes ineffective manner...
...right now, the used book market is kind of haphazard," he said. "We want to increase the number of used books in the marketplace...