Word: haphazardous
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...Foundation journal Mosaic, the inhabitants of Teotihuacan lived primarily in windowless, one-story apartment compounds that opened onto courtyards. The compounds, which housed about 100 people each, were occasionally organized into barrio-like neighborhoods, but there was no real class separation in Teotihuacan. The researchers have found an almost haphazard mixture of classes and occupations throughout the city...
...expressed most crudely in a 1905 Harvard Graduate's Magazine article that advocated the temporary cessation of games with Yale to preserve Harvard's preeminence. "Thanks to the linking of Yale's name with Harvard's in the sports of the past fifty years, the public, in its haphazard fashion, has gone on supposing that Harvard and Yale were about on a level as institutions of learning," the story's writer laments. Nothing, he adds, could be further from the truth. The article appeared at the nadir of Harvard football, the team having beaten Yale in only one of their...
...change in the power of the Cabinet to the necessities of war. The great bureaucracies created to prosecute the Great War of 1914-18 and only partially dismantled in the twenties and thirties were run from the Prime Minister's office. After 1945, Clement Attlee transformed Churchill's "rather haphazard personal autocracy" into a steamlined power structure. Increasingly the real decisions were made by the Prime Minister alone or in consultation with one or two other key figures, and the Cabinet relegated to the role of a rubber stamp. Attlee, along with a small group in the Defense Sub-Committee...
...that other committees like it need both nut-and-bolts and broad recommendations. Without a wide focus, he says, the committees become just inventory-takers, which isn't enough. Their role should be one of planning and providing for changes that would otherwise be implemented on a slower, more haphazard basis, he says...
Word Dance, the first bit, is slow and haphazard. The characters dance and freeze, and then one delivers a pungent one-liner. The jokes are not terribly funny (where did you get those big brown eyes and that tiny mind?) but pointless facial expression and vapid delivery don't help them...