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Since accounting procedures are haphazard at best, a few Palestinians have succumbed to the tempting rewards of open-collar crime. Two months ago, three P.L.O. officials were tossed into a fedayeen jail for gambling away $250,000 of the organization's money at the gaming tables of Cairo. But as even critics of the P.L.O. concede, most of the Palestinian leaders emulate the ascetic style of Arafat who, despite international renown, dresses in baggy battle fatigues, operates out of a spartan office in a Beirut slum, and indulges in neither whisky, cigarettes nor women...
...million people rank among the world's poorest. Roughly 6 million people are unemployed. The influx of foreign funds was led by an oil boom that has made Indonesia, with a daily output of 1.7 million bbl., Asia's only main exporter of crude. Corruption and haphazard government policies, however, have slowed further oil exploration to a crawl, and Indonesia may lose its exporting position within a decade...
Arms said far too many unnecessary Caesarians births have been conducted, that unnecessary drugs have been administered to women during childbirth, that medical care itself is often haphazard and careless, and that hospital rules and procedures inhibit the mother and the family from experiencing a normal, natural, more comfortable childbirth...
...Harvard Experience. (ahem) How does Webster's Dictionary define "Harvard?" A quick, haphazard glance provides this definition: "The gathering of crops...The season when ripened crops are gathered, a crop or yield of one growing season...
...opinion of the writers of this letter (as representatives of the Student Committee on Afro-American Studies--SCAAS) that the article totally misrepresented the major theme and intentions of the forum given in honor of Malcolm X, primarily through faulty journalistic practices. We would first like to criticize the haphazard journalism, and then clarify those ideas which we wanted to communicated through the forum...