Opponents of early decision say the practice leads to premature and uninformed decisions and may distract seniors from school work.

Many people have been injured by the heat or gases that are produced in such uninformed decisions.

Simon Lomax, the research director for Energy In Depth, a petroleum industry group, has called the decision reckless and uninformed.

The country could survive a wrong, even a stupid, decision; it was harder to survive an ignorant, uninformed decision, because the latter all too often became administration policy.

But you quickly come to see it as an integral part of life requiring thought and preparation to avoid uninformed decisions.

An uninformed decision may lead to a day spent among Lilliputian waves, while a nearby beach has lovely tubes just waiting to be tamed.

"An uninformed, bad decision by a parent could hurt a child," Dr. Hamer said.

You never had enough to make an informed decision, and so you had to make an uninformed decision and hope that your hunches were right.

It was an uninformed decision.

In land use regulations, concerns of an abutter may be given special attention, being the one most likely to suffer specific harm from a hasty, uninformed decision.