This side of her business is never mentioned again, and is just one of dozens of examples of the loose-strings twirling all over the place in the haphazard script written by McCarthy, director Ben Falcone and Steve Mallory.
"For too long, C.R.S. reports have been available to the public only on a haphazard basis," wrote Senator Joe Leiberman, who has twice introduced bills to liberate the research.
"Nothing in the sea falls haphazard," he wrote in a 1929 report to the National Academy of Sciences, "if we cannot predict, it is because we do not know the cause, or how the cause works".
In interviews with The New York Times, former employees have described a climate of intimidation punctuated by capricious firings, and a purchasing process so haphazard that textbooks and writing materials were sometimes in short supply.
The nostalgic sound of a typewriter clacking is strangely appropriate to the unhurried yet apposite answers which emanate, in his unmistakable cadence, from the typed page.Mr Maxwell came to writing with the same haphazard inevitability that characterises his written style.
"Google Plus's names policy seems to have been scribbled on a napkin at the last minute, rushed into production while still half-baked, and confused even further by their haphazard, scattershot approach," Jon Evans wrote in a post on TechCrunch.
Since Marco Polo first narrated a new kind of text in a Genoa prison cell, much of the finest Western travel writing about Asia has managed to be both serious and appealingly haphazard.
