Word: randomizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many students said they tried to "beat the system" by chosing houses they believed would not be very popular. As a result, various river houses had openings in the random pool...
Samuel C. Watkins '81, who was assigned to Kirkland House in the random pool, said, "I was very surprised. Things could have been a lot worse...
Students who did not get into their first three choices were placed into the random pool, consisting of Houses not filled by the first part of the lottery. Students in the random pool received assignments through new lottery numbers in a process that ranks the Houses in alphabetical order...
...Random numbers, anyone...
...addition to all that, the IRS computers this year will select for audit, purely at random, 42,000 returns, or about one in 2,000, in order to develop a statistical profile of all taxpayers. The incomes of these audited taxpayers will range from the lowest to the highest; anyone is vulnerable. These audits will give the IRS the top-secret norms for deductions against which all returns will be judged...