Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adobe houses still standing defiantly erect alongside the skeletons of completely scorched buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust now covers everything. A stray dog searches for its owner and snaps at anyone who tries to peer through what was once a window. The destruction seems haphazard. A completely undamaged kitchen with a green refrigerator opens into the hulk of a demolished bedroom. Fragments of lives are scattered everywhere, here a flowered water jug, there a statue of the Virgin Mary, her severed head resting a few steps away from her folded, praying hands...
...Republicans "appeared to have calibrated their strategy very carefully in terms of the polls and acted accordingly. I wonder [and will ask] whether they polled as often as they appeared to have or whether it was more haphazard," Isaacs commented...
...income and assets if they stand to benefit from them, as well as their personal assets. Ferraro, who is a lawyer, had never disclosed Zaccaro's; she says she believed their separate careers entitled her to an exemption. Finally, Ferraro would have to answer for her husband's sometimes haphazard and occasionally controversial business dealings...
When Telling became chairman in 1978, Sears was more like a far-flung feudal kingdom than a smooth-running company. Store managers ordered goods in a haphazard way and sometimes ignored merchandising strategies planned at headquarters. Telling cut costs and raised sales by imposing discipline and direction from the Sears Tower in Chicago. To add spark to the company, he eased out complacent old-line executives and appointed younger, fresher lieutenants to key positions. Says Telling: "It was very lonely. What I did had to be done, but I knew I wouldn't be very popular...
Many of the women wore pictures of their missing relatives across their dresses, like rows of hard-won campaign medals. Some pulled out worn snapshots, while others brandished framed glossies. The haphazard gallery of photographs symbolized one of the nastiest legacies of Lebanon's nine years of civil war. During the spasms of bloodletting, which primarily pitted Muslim against Christian, as many as 5,000 people disappeared without a trace. Most were taken by rival militias in the perennial quest for revenge or as hostages for the return of members of the abductors' own sect. What makes...