Word: haphazard
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...game can change when a team loses focus for a few minutes or falls victim to bad luck. Often, if the defense fails to recover its mental edge after letting in a goal, it can snowball into a scoring streak for the opposition. During Harvard’s haphazard start against Quinnipiac, the Bobcats struck twice within 53 seconds in the middle of the first period after Ben Nelson followed a Brian Leitch goal by stuffing a rebound past Richter. “I think that we work too hard for goals to allow a few slip...
Buildings that were once thriving now look decrepit and dilapidated. An Internet caf is now an empty shell of a concrete structure. Some restaurants have been hit four or five times in car bomb attacks. Wires and cables are strewn like drunken, haphazard spider webs from building to building and street to street. I saw the hotel room I lived in for six weeks in 2004. Not because the desk manager let me in - the place is now shuttered and boarded up - but because the windows are blown out. Banks, mosques, and hospitals, in addition to whole neighborhoods and private...
...possible the court will ponder this haphazard procedure and say again, as it ruled in the Francis case: Too bad--accidents will happen. Or it might follow the lead of U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, who ruled that the three-drug cocktail, administered by people without proper training and supervision, is cruel and unusual. Or something in between...
...Center kitchen by Director Susan B. Marine and Staff Assistant Bridget K. Duffy. Tzu-Ying Chuang ’10 said that she was looking for a tank top. “You can’t really have anything specific in mind because it’s very haphazard, but you can definitely get lucky,” she said. After hearing from a graduate student that an unofficial women’s center of the 1990s had hosted a Naked Ladies Brunch, Women’s Center intern Natasha S. Alford ’08 reintroduced the event...
...harassment as engaging in a “pattern of conduct” that would cause a reasonable person to suffer “substantial emotional distress.” But what period of time results in the distinction of a “pattern” rather than haphazard nastiness? And what does “substantial” entail for the “average” person? Suicide? A few tears...