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...processing of potential draftees is a lengthy and confused business. The induction center has eight floors, bridged by rickety stairs and an ancient, attendant-operated elevator. Registrants are required to proceed from room to room and floor to floor in seemingly random order...
...neither the type of prison nor the length of sentence makes any significant difference. The repeater rate, in fact, is rising. Something is clearly wrong with a system that spends $1 billion a year to produce a failure record that would sink any business in a month. Consider a random sample of prisons from the worst to the best...
...they will proceed by the chosen method to pick zero, one or two of their num-ber (up to five for the freshmen) to participate in a larger lottery in which the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life will pick four names at random-except that if any freshmen or Cliffies have been sent to the larger lottery there must be one of each among the four. These four will serve...
Ramsey told Faculty members this particular arrangement had been chosen to combine the random lotteries used for jury selection and more normal committee election patterns, to reflect the particular duties of members...
...executives, mostly corporate presidents. He asked them to choose any number from zero to 9. They had to make the choice 100 different times, always picking a one-digit number. When the executives had finished their part of the experiment, an IBM computer, which was programmed to operate at random, also selected 100 numbers...