Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, several masters and the dean of the College came up with a plan to answer these complaints. Under the proposal, one-quarter of the spaces in participating houses would have been filled by random assignment...
FOOTNOTE: *(c) 1940 by W.H. Auden. Reprinted by Permission of Random House...
...Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House...
...lives are saved than lost by the firearms Americans acquire to protect themselves and their property. The N.R.A. emphasized that claim in a two-page newspaper advertisement attacking TIME for its report ((July 17)) on 464 gun deaths that occurred in the U.S. in a single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State University, every year some 650,000 Americans use firearms to thwart criminal assault. That...
...real prehistoric," says Fordham University biologist Mark Botton, a New York Giants cap perched on his curly black hair, as he ambles down the beach just feet from the frenzy. "We call it a random-collision process," he says, describing the orgiastic mating ritual of the world's largest population of horseshoe crabs. "It's just like billiard balls...