Word: randomizations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...politicians were similarly disqualified and detained, . and politicking was confined mostly to private homes. The day before last week's election, officials unexpectedly lifted martial law, which had been in effect since September 1988, in parts of the country, but the campaign of intimidation continued. Security officers reportedly conducted random searches of houses, and in the eastern state of Shan reports spread of men being dragooned into the army to carry munitions into rebel-occupied areas...
...kitchen counter at 36 Irving St. is an Etch-a-Sketch. On the grey face above the two knobs are not the usual convoluted stick men, shaky square house, or the even more usual quasigeometrical mess of random shapes and wiggles. Glaring from the screen is a squat, intricate medieval demon named Baphomet, who has a cross in his crotch, a flaming eye in his right hand and a nasty leer on his toothy face. Baphomet used to be regarded as the guardian of the gates of hell, and here, on the kitchen counter, in the squiggly confines...
Spurred by studies which showed an alarming lack of diversity among the houses, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 brought back the previous year's proposal introducing a more random element into house selection...
...council had managed to fend off the changes for a year by convincing house masters to oppose Jewett's randomization plan. But armed with new statistics, Jewett returned this year with a scheme that would assign half the upcoming class to random houses...
...facto monopolies, while magazines and books must battle for attention in an increasingly crowded market and thus must be aggressive to survive. In any case, it is hard to quarrel with the results. As the family fortune has soared, the magazine and book divisions have contributed their share. Random House, bought for $70 million in 1980, went on a spree of acquisition and expansion into the global market and is deemed by financial analysts to be worth perhaps $1.5 billion today. The magazines have generally prospered, even in a declining ad market, despite the fact that several of them compete...