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...came home to my dark and cold house and heard gunfire," Mark Bartolini, the public information officer for the International Refugee Committee in Sarajevo, told TIME Daily. "But it was random and prolonged gunfire rather than the deliberate shots you normally hear. That's how I knew that an accord had been reached." Bartolini says that some champagne was uncorked in the besieged city tonight, "but there was no jubilation, no parties. The Sarajevans have been through too much for that." Though Bartolini says thare is more optimism among the international community in Sarajevo, he says that "everybody is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CAUTIOUS CELEBRATION | 11/21/1995 | See Source »

Last spring, the committee conducted a random phone survey of 180 students. Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed believed that the Core has fulfilled its objectives, but more than half favored replacing the Core curriculum with distributional requirements...

Author: By Andrew S.chang, | Title: Forum on Core Held Tonight | 11/14/1995 | See Source »

...Nielsen survey, by contrast, used the same random phone-calling techniques employed by political pollsters and marketing firms. Commissioned by CommerceNet, an industry consortium looking to boost business online, the study was based on interviews with more than 4,200 North American households--a sample that experts say is large enough to be taken seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIELSEN RATES THE NET | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Kurz arranged interviews from a random sample of divorced women to discover their concerns and situations. She gleans essential information about their vast responsibilities. According to Kurz, women usually have more social and financial responsibilities than the men after the marriage is terminated...

Author: By Sarah G. Vincent, | Title: Kurz's 'For Richer, For Poorer' Confronts Inequalities of Divorce | 11/9/1995 | See Source »

TAXPAYERS The IRS announces it won't make random superaudits after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Nov. 6, 1995 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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