Word: haphazardous
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...justify their pay. The U.S. should fund a massive job-training program to equip these would-be workers with the skills to make them productive; Nixon's 1973 cutbacks in job-training programs were the worst sort of federal "economy." Beyond that, the U.S. labor market now does a haphazard job of matching workers' talents to available positions; employers and workers seek each other through state and private employment agencies that have little contact with one another. The Administration has long discussed, but inexplicably failed to act upon a nationwide computer "job bank" linking all state employment offices. Those offices...
Isabella is the only one who comes close to self-fulfillment. She realizes that perhaps it is possible to infuse creativity into her roles, a creativity balanced between Flaminio's self-consuming and haphazard improvisation and Francesco's constricting memorization. She realizes that her talents have been developed as self-protection, not self-expression, as a shield against her naturally unbounded generosity, a self-destructive and explosive emotion which often vented itself in endless hours of duck-like squawking. But the best she can do, speaking from the wrong side of the heavenly gates, is whisper her confession into another...
...problem confronting clubs, is the haphazard manner in which Watson distributes his financial aid. One criterion for aid seems to be the department's version of Catch-22: a club needing money to build a strong competitive squad cannot receive aid until it demonstrates some degree of winning potential...
...There is a mind to constituencies in the University," Gomes says in explaining the haphazard selection process. "But it is not constituencies in the HEW sense of the word, with X number of agnostics and so on. I think when it does get to that point, we will have reached a very sad state...
...invitation to her place for afternoon tea (which she serves at such choking strength that Comedian Bob Hope once quipped, "She is the only person I know who drinks pot") can include telling glimpses of her own haphazard personal museum-a four-story potpourri drawn from history, whimsy and a driving intellect. "Mrs. Longworth operates the most interesting disorderly house in Washington," an admiring guest once noted. Visitors encounter thousands of stacked books, a calendar of personal engagements from 1907, a 15-ft. tiger skin that was a gift from the Dowager Empress of China, a drawing of a Chinese...