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...freshmen in next year's class who will participate in the program will be chosen at random, he said...
...strike for higher wages spread, stoppages and slowdowns seemed to succeed one another almost at random. The customs inspectors at London's Heathrow Airport returned to duty within 24 hours, but the rail strike that was supposed to last one day dragged on for four. Queen Elizabeth II herself had to rearrange a train trip to Wales (she went by plane instead). Scotland Yard warned travelers: "Do not come into London unless your presence is absolutely essential." In some areas there were already shortages of fruits and vegetables...
...quartet sets up headquarters in the cabin and conducts random searches, the daughter finds herself tracking ancestors more distant than her father. She comes upon what appear to be copies of rock paintings among her father's papers, then decides these atavistic scrawls are original visions, uniting her father with the first cave painter, his archetypal self...
...committee of Overseers and AHA directors last year changed the positioning procedure from academic seniority to random ordering to prevent age prejudice in the voting...
...method, devised by the AHA and Paul W. Holland, lecturer on statistics, utilizes a 700 page book of five digit random numbers. A page and column are selected from the book, and the sequence of numbers is matched to an alphabetical list of the candidates. The candidates are listed on the ballot from lowest number to highest...