Word: randomization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...country, sneaking through the bush to Thailand via Laos and Kampuchea, or huddling in boats headed into the treacherous South China Sea. Viet Nam is now quiet and bucolic, the battlefields lush once again. But it is also an anxious, impoverished country, more than a little grim: the terrible random death of war has been replaced by the mean certainties of a police-state peace. Life may be better for most Vietnamese, but life is not good...
Soon we discovered the disadvantages of the front row, as a parade of people streamed past in both directions. Some were looking for their seats, and asked us where Section 34 was. We shrugged and pointed in random directions...
...anger. The criminal-justice system is not working in America. It is absurdly slow, overburdened, understaffed, inefficient, random in its selection of who is to be punished. From the muggers' and rapists' perspective, the uncertainty of imprisonment, indeed the likelihood of avoiding it, is actually an incentive to commit crime. Out of 550,000 reported crimes in New York City in 1983, police made 106,000 arrests, but only 13,500 suspects wound up behind bars. Observes Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Richter Jr. of Charleston, S.C.: "The Goetz incident is just symptomatic of what's going on everywhere. People...
Other results of the Crimson poll--a random telephone survey of 479 students--showed that one third of students favor selective divestiture based on ethical or other considerations, that 14 percent oppose any sale of stock, and that 19 percent are unsure of their position on the controversial divestiture issue...
...Yorker proved that it was not inviolate after all. Its board of directors agreed to sell the magazine to Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 57, head of a family owned publishing empire that includes 29 newspapers, the Conde Nast magazines (among them: Vogue, Vanity Fair and Gentlemen's Quarterly) and Random House book publishers. Newhouse offered a generous $142 million--$200 a share for the publication's more than 700,000 outstanding shares--and agreed to shelter the newly acquired property as a separate company under his corporate umbrella. Still, the announcement unsettled those who work for the magazine. "There...