Word: haphazardous
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...Crimson's 31-30 loss to Brown on Saturday was largely the result of haphazard and questionable strategy in the final two minutes, the kind of strategy that could make you forget about the brilliant play which had transpired in the first...
Corporate policymakers, Simon asserts, are pressed to make decisions without enough accurate information to maximize profits. They settle for aiming at merely "satisfactory" profits, often with unexpected results. A key weakness in the haphazard process is that solutions that worked once may be tried over and over again in situations requiring entirely different resolutions. Most economic forecasters, however, accept the traditional notion that firms seek to maximize profits. If that is not so, then the economic policy decisions that flow from their forecasts, both in and out of government, are to say the least, questionable...
...costs of this ignorance have been staggering. While it is more dramatic to suggest proximate solutions to redress the triangular balance of power, it is this deep-seated myopia that must first be corrected. Until full diplomatic relations are established, the U.S. will remain blind as it develops a haphazard, episodic Far-Eastern policy...
...Diego collision particularly dramatized the haphazard nature of midair collisions. The evidence collected so far indicates that the veteran pilots in both planes appeared to have been following all proper safety procedures, watchful controllers on the ground had alerted both aircraft by radio of their dangerous proximity-and yet they collided. Nearly 100 investigators probed the scattered wreckage and began interviewing some 221 witnesses in an effort to determine just why. So far, this was what they were learning about the San Diego catastrophe...
Only a few short years ago, some 400 unfortunate students not assigned to live in the Yard had to rely for advice on the haphazard collection of sophmores, juniors and seniors with whom they lived, who represented a variety of fields and a host of different approaches to the "Harvard experience." Freshmen had to contend with a torrent of unsolicited advice in late-night bull sessions in the hallways, over football matches and at meals taken in a common dining facility. At the time, many of us wrongly believed that there was some benefit to freshmen from being routinely associated...