Word: haphazards
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...just that for a very long time eating the right kind of food—or, more accurately, my failure to do so—has dominated my life. Every unbalanced meal was brazen rebellion. Every celery stick promised redemption. And my choices were all sort of haphazard, based on what I could rustle up or find or submit to, partially because of four-plus years of high school dining hall subsistence and partially because food preparation itself just seemed so awful...
...most of its users, the Internet might seem like an inexplicably haphazard system. But in The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, Bernardo Huberman, who heads Internet research at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., explains that the Net actually follows predictable rules that can inform business decisions. Like the sports and entertainment worlds, the Internet is a winner-take-all marketplace where relatively few companies reap huge profits. There is a very low probability that a new site will attract significant traffic. And congestion, or "storms" that slow access to pages, can be predicted...
Week after week of imprecision bombing has created streams of Afghan refugees trying to enter Pakistan by illegally crossing the barren Khyber Mountains. According to the U.N. refugee agency, since Sept. 11, more than 100,000 such refugees have entered Pakistan. Yet after the seemingly haphazard destruction of power plants, military targets, medical clinics and civilian villages, Rumsfeld asserts that the Taliban still poses a threat. This “threat” is the justification given for the continuation of the Bush administration’s textbook-style policy for the first phase of their “America...
...built a notorious reputation on its purposely infantile attitude and a somewhat haphazard fusion of riot grrl and disco-pop. With this new album, the band manages to accomplish what few expected, filing away the childlike antics and eschewing the rough-hewn punk aesthetic for more complex arrangements, thus fashioning a mature update of their distinctive sound. Whether they are ultimately successful, however, is less certain...
...this space. Looming above the tub, is a bizarre 25 spout water dispersal array which appears to have served as the shower head. Anachronistically placed among this grandeur is a garish post-modern emblem of mass production—a Scott’s hand towel dispenser. This haphazard addition has clearly been an unthoughtful juxtaposition to this otherwise palatial facility...