Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...have ever had." Thus the companies are turning out ever more exotic defensive gadgets. For example, to cut alarms without the breaks being noticed, crafty cracksmen now tie in simulators that duplicate the all-safe signal. In a counterattack, both Diebold and Mosler have developed alarm attachments that transmit random signals similar to computer code, which no simulator has yet been able to imitate. Cost...
...MAKING OF A SURGEON by William A. Nolen, M.D. 269 pages. Random House...