Word: randomizations
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...railroad employees in the U.S., a day at work may now include a surprise: being selected for a random drug test. Last week the workers joined more than 650,000 other private-sector employees who during the past month have become subject to new Department of Transportation rules requiring random tests. While many transport workers are already screened before hiring and after accidents, the department hopes its expanded rules will provide an even higher level of deterrence...
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision last March that affirmed the testing of railroad and Customs workers under certain conditions, drug screening faces heated challenges. Last week a federal appeals court halted all testing for 195,500 mass-transit workers. An injunction also prevents the DOT from requiring random or postaccident tests for 3 million truck and bus drivers...
...Conrail and Amtrak trains that killed 16, investigators determined that a Conrail engineer and conductor had been smoking marijuana just before the accident. So far, testing has support from an important group: the workers. In a Gallup poll released last month, a majority of adults said they favored random testing...
...ordered choice option, first introduced by the first year Committee Against Randomization (CAR) this fall, was the final compromise between students, who favored the old system of choice, and the dean and a majority of house masters, who favored totally random assignments. None are entirely happy with it, but they are accepting...
...Random House; 230 pages...