Word: haphazard
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...comic flights into the existential absurd? No matter. Any Woody Allen reference is a nice surprise from a President who affects a militant lack of sophistication. More important, the story reveals that Bush has an acute awareness of the impression he makes in the world. His policies may be haphazard, but his public appearances aren't. He is not a simpleton. He just plays one--wittingly, it seems--on TV. "He has a stratospheric EQ," a Senator once told me, referring to Bush's emotional intelligence. "I've never heard him talk much about policy substance or details...
...Steen Broust Nielsen, 36, is due to become a new father. Although the Denmark-based marketing director is looking forward to the new arrival, he will be taking his two weeks' paid paternity leave in a haphazard fashion. "We have an interim report coming up, so I can't possibly stay away too long," he says. Perhaps "half a day here and half a day there, when it's convenient." Despite the fact that in addition to those two paid paternity weeks Danish law allows both parents to share 32 weeks' state benefit-supported leave during the first nine years...
...comic flights into the existential absurd? No matter. Any Woody Allen reference is a nice surprise from a President who affects a militant lack of sophistication. More important, the story reveals that Bush has an acute awareness of the impression he makes in the world. His policies may be haphazard, but his public appearances aren't. He is not a simpleton. He just plays one-wittingly, it seems-on TV. "He has a stratospheric EQ," a Senator once told me, referring to Bush's emotional intelligence. "I've never heard him talk much about policy substance or details...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, the administrator responsible for the decision to discontinue the first-year summer mailing, said that the process “was haphazard and grew without anyone asking if this was the best way to notify freshmen.” Instead, the Office of Student Activities (OSA) will send out a brochure that gives students an overview of campus activities...
...carried out every day. "He wouldn't talk about it," she says. Even representatives for the private security company that employed the men, Blackwater USA, could not say what exactly they were up to on that fateful morning. "All the details of the attack at this point are haphazard at best," says Chris Bertelli, a spokesman for Blackwater. "We don't know what they were doing on the road at the time...