Word: scattergunning
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Though health information sometimes is presented badly and tends to err on the side of overoptimism, no useful purpose is served by the Blue Cross scattergun blast. The fact is that the quality of health information provided by the lay media has improved over a quarter-century at least as much as health care has. At any rate, whether health information is accepted or retained depends less on the source than on whether the audience is motivated to be receptive...
Strategic Momentum. E.D.F. had its scattergun start on Long Island in 1967. In its first case, a fiery lawyer named Victor J. Yannacone Jr. went to court to stop the Suffolk County mosquito control commission from dousing marshlands with DDT. Rather than alleging personal damages, he sued in the name of all the people of the U.S. and "generations yet unborn." Even though the court ducked the issue and declared it a problem for the state legislature, the mosquito commission was sufficiently impressed by expert testimony presented in court to quit using...
Such blunderbuss terror tactics have little to do with firm and wise law enforcement. Nor does the city's announced intention of blackmailing hippies with a scattergun enforcement of vagrancy laws: arrested hippies must either go to jail or get out of town...
Thundering, in fact, is his forte. He has little use for the twelve-tone school, prefers instead a scattergun attack of drums, gongs, cowbells, wood blocks, maracas, xylophones, glockenspiels and tubas. All are brought into play in Short Symphony, a 14-minute piece subtitled "Testimony to a Big City." It bristles with jazzy splashes, but too often falls off the pace like a mudder on a fast track. It is restless, aggressive, often directionless music, a personal statement of what Bazelon calls his "violent, silent world inside." Just how he arrived at his present state of agitation is a case...
...this nebulous person to sound off on foreign policy (especially in such a scattergun fashion) is, to me, ludicrous...