Word: haphazardous
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...They mix arguments from different theoretical perspectives eclectically, conflating, for example, Daniel Bell's claim that manual labor in the "post-industrial" U.S. is becoming progressively less important with Stanley Aronowitz's that the labor force is being generally proletarianized. The book jumps from general to particular in so haphazard a manner as to make it easier to find anecdotes about Harold Geneen's world vision or the loss of shoemaking jobs in Lynn than precise information about the importance of the global corporations in the U.S. economy...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Theodore Cooper, says vaccines are effective against flu about 80% of the time, but other scientists argue that vaccination offers only haphazard protection. Because flu viruses mutate so frequently, vaccines produced to combat one strain may be less effective against a genetic variant that appears later in the same season. If appropriate inoculations could always be prepared in advance, doctors would have been able to prevent the outbreak of A/Victoria flu this winter among Fort Dix recruits-who were vaccinated against three other viral strains. Admits Virologist Gary Noble of the U.S. Public Health...
Scottsdale, Ariz., which has had a population growth of 25% in the past five years, is trying to slow development. To control the often haphazard designs of businesses, apartments and condominiums, the town now requires that a development review board approve all buildings except single-family homes. Mayor William Jenkins likes to speak of this deliberate slowdown as "the Scottsdale syndrome-let's let the town remain the same as it was when I came here." Similarly, Petaluma, Calif., a small agricultural community that has grown by nearly 50% in the past eight years, recently won a legal battle...
...true letter," she wrote to Clive Bell in 1907, "should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving in the mind." Virginia Woolf composed such letters by the thousands-quick, nervous jottings of the moment, full of teasing, deliberately haphazard and unliterary...
...haphazard organization of Central Square doesn't preclude original designs--it might even encourage whimsical businessmen. I'm sort of partial to weeds, myself, and the dowdy, uncouth window display at Fashion Junction, where the man-nequins' limbs are out of kilter under synthetic negligees in translucent shades of green and blue, fascinates me, while Corcoran's spacious, well-tended window doesn't interest me. Some charming stores have sprouted between the frowzy ones, too. I like Paul's Shoes because the cobbler printed his sign in slithery black letters. And I'm sorry the miniscule take-out stand...