For example, Athens has moved to clean up an erratic system of pension disbursements, but some pension checks are still being mailed to people who have died.
(The Registry is a big database that Windows uses to store information and settings used by the operating system. Registry problems can often lead to erratic system behavior).
But as the political leaders deliberate about who should be allowed in and how they should expedite the procedures, innumerable people who spent weeks risking their lives and abandoning their homes just trying to get to Berlin are continuing to suffer in a Kafka-esque nightmare as they drudge through a complex, erratic system of German bureaucracy in order to gain asylum.
Such nervous systems provide an erratic guidance system for the invisible hand.
Tells about Rio's murderous traffic, its shortage of water & electricity; and its erratic postal system.
The lens through which to view this kind of show — with its crude staging, its erratic sound system, its cheap sets, its notional choreography, its cartoon-bubble dialogue — is not the Broadway musical but street theatre.
In fact, Apollo 14 had two big wobbles later in the mission: five hours after leaving Earth, when there was alarming difficulty docking its command module with the lander that would take Mitchell and Shepard on to the moon's surface; and on the descent, when they were thrown by both a malfunctioning computer and an erratic radar system.
When I'm away from home I always plan on sleeping a lot, but the strange bed, the erratic HVAC system, the rattling of the housekeeping cart in the hallway, the presence of a television brimming with so many "Law and Order" reruns, the slap of USA Today at the door at 5 A.M. these all make my ambitious sleep plans impossible.
If you're unlucky enough to be familiar with London's erratic Underground system, and view crossing the capital by Tube as an expedition on a par with tackling Everest, spare a thought for the few hundred brave souls who will be descending into the long-closed Aldwych station later this week.
When I'm away from home I always plan on sleeping a lot, but the strange bed, the erratic HVAC system, the rattling of the housekeeping cart in the hallway, the presence of a television brimming with so many "Law and Order" reruns, the slap of USA Today at the door at 5 A.M. — these all make my ambitious sleep plans impossible.
Byzantine coinage, in its continuity, contrasted strongly with the often erratic monetary systems from the 5th to the 7th century in western Europe, where Germanic invaders inherited the apparatus, money included, of the Roman Empire.
