Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began on New Year's Eve, when a band of Greek Cypriot fanatics known as the National Front seized 2,500 sticks of dynamite from an iron-pyrites mine -"enough to blow up every building in Nicosia," according to one newspaper. Soon afterward, bombs began to explode at random points throughout the island (see map), and a police station was seized temporarily. The attacks were aimed not at the Turkish Cypriot community but at the policies of Archbishop Makarios, the island's President. Makarios was re-elected in 1968 on a platform of "a feasible solution rather than...
...soapmakers-P & G, Colgate and Lever-vigorously deny that there is a health hazard and produce a barrage of statistical evidence. P & G pretested the effects of enzymes on the skin by applying patches smeared with detergent solution to more than 20 random groups of from 60 to 100 volunteers. The patches were applied three times a week for three weeks, and there was not a single case of skin irritation. Executives also say that they have all but eliminated enzyme dust in packaged goods. Just to keep the record clean, however, the soapmakers say that they intend...
TOWARD A RADICAL MIDDLE by Renata Adler. 259 pages. Random House...
IMAGINE for a moment a newspaper whose circulation is limited to members of Nixon's Cabinet plus the Weathermen, or to a random sampling of soldiers on either side of the DMZ. The you will have some idea of what it is like to put out a newspaper in a university at war. Anyone who has ever written a news story knows that the subjects of the story almost always complain about the results. That is usually a good sign, since the reporter tries to get a more detached view than any of the participants. And most newspapers are usually...
...letter the students received with the questionnaire states that this organization is conducting "a survey of student attitudes concerning the American political and economic system." It said the students had been selected at random...