Word: haphazards
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...chilling disclosure. Until now, attacks against U.S. outposts in Afghanistan have been haphazard. Bands of pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas would engage in shoot-and-run assaults, such as lobbing a single wildly aimed mortar round and then hightailing it over the mountains. These strikes typically caused more nuisance than harm. Ghani's confession, however, suggested that for the first time anti-U.S. forces were creeping back from their hideouts across the Pakistani border and regrouping in large numbers. Their aim is to pour heavy fire on the Americans, forcing them to retreat from their isolated bases...
...feed us incomplete information and red herrings? Since defectors are normally so helpful to intelligence—when they are willing, that is—it is not difficult to imagine our attention focusing on information from forced defectors, with a dangerous drop-off in more haphazard, but less absurd, traditional random-check weapons inspections. In a situation where so much rides on the outcome of these inspections, it is imperative that the defense department listen to the state department and U.N. critics and abandon this misguided, potentially devastating course of action...
Health care policy in this country is formed in a very haphazard way, he said...
...concerned about the haphazard and piecemeal set of preschool arrangements in this country right now,” he said. “Early education should not be a privilege, but a right...
...jurors never heard that Yoder had been given multiple, seemingly haphazard diagnoses. For instance, bipolar disorder was diagnosed in 1991, but that diagnosis vanished from his records in 1998--even though Yoder never took part in treatment. Jurors also never heard from one of Unsell's potential witnesses, a Chester employee who wouldn't testify for fear of losing his job. That employee, who retired not long ago from his position as a guard supervisor but still fears retribution if identified, told me that Chester staff members sometimes provoke Yoder in hopes that he will become violent and provide grist...