Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, consumers must have substantial input and influence on the functioning of a health care facility. If we are to accomplish this, consumers must prove that they are responsible, reachable, willing to work to achieve their goals, and determined to make their opinions heard and responded to. Haphazard, halfway efforts only convince professionals that consumers can't really become involved in the issues that matter. And all too often that's all we come up with...
Altman's lazy, haphazard putdown is without affection or understanding, a nose-thumb not only at the idea of Philip Marlowe but at the genre that his tough-guy-soft-heart character epitomized. It is a curious spectacle to see Altman mocking a level of achievement to which, at his best, he could only aspire...
...love with the idea of a spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture is a veritable jungle. The sexism is vicious, the community is haphazard, and the allegiance is nil. Still the author insists on romanticizing the squalor, to the extent where any of its exposure begins to look like the work of the reader. The sexism, in particular, was quite certainly not intended as such, and while I found it sick, and not even...
...Every Sunday night from 7 to 11, they rail against everything from overpriced tickets and cold hot dogs to sportswriters ("Sock sniffers in the locker room") and the sports establishment ("They've been abusing the public for years"). Their format is like the New England Patriots' offense: haphazard. Their delivery sounds like three guys gassing in a ginmill-that is. loose and loudmouth...
FROM ONE perspective, it is easy to sympathize with Patullo's frustration in the face of Harvard's haphazard planning. President Bok's fund for innovation in education is a convenient case in point...