Word: haphazardous
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...comes from rock: Bob Dylan's Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again happened to be playing the night Sottsass crystalized the project with half a dozen young followers. His oddly hued, plastic-laminate-covered Carlton room divider, whose bookshelves extend at eccentric angles, is intentionally haphazard-looking. Since books tend to settle on an incline anyway, reasoned Sottsass, why force them to stand at attention? With a core committee in Milan, Sottsass informally reviews proposals and commissions plans from like-minded designers. "We are explorers out in unmapped places," he says. "We are not trying...
...tests only after a reasonable suspicion of drunk driving (weaving, excessive speed, etc.); under the Reagan plan, employees undergo random tests regardless of criminal suspicion. And second, the precisions of alcohol tests--accurate to several decimal places--provides prima facie evidence of guilt; while results of polygraph tests are haphazard at best. The arbitrary application of lie-detector tests coupled with their dubious reliability belies our ideal of painstaking procedural due process. Perhaps Richard Nixon put it best when he remarked in one of the Watergate tapes. "I don't know whether [lie-detector tests] are accurate...
Perhaps the most popular Office of the Art's project is the Learning from Performers program. During the past few years, the Office has brought such artists as Robert Redford, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright. Marsha Norman and Norman Lear to Harvard. Attracting artists is haphazard--depending on "who happens to know who," according to Mayman...
...until now, testing procedures were generally so haphazard and unsophisticated that many athletes and their trainers were willing to risk detection for the chance to shave an extra tenth of a second on a sprint or to lift a kilo more than a pumped-up hulk who had obviously been popping something...
Before settling the case and putting Chaldea in the rear-view mirror once more, the doughty private investigator rediscovers an old love, uncovers some long-suppressed secrets, and puts Billy's pregnant lady on the road to social security. Things occur without apparent order but with the haphazard blur of ripening crops and turning leaves, as Midwest-raised Author Stephen Greenleaf knows they should. As for Investigator Tanner, in his fourth fictional appearance, he is once again the small-town boy making good, and better, and better...