Word: dices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oppositions to randomization so universal? Because students know that sharing of experience is only possible in an environment where there is a balance of likeness and difference, diversity and community, and where there is a commonality that is a living organism, not an artificial assemblage conjured into existence by dice-rolls. The students deserve to be treated in their housing choices, as in their other choices, as the adults that they are. The consensus is clear: total randomization is a disastrous mistake, and the decision must be reversed. Philip R. Munger '95 John D. Shephered...
About 25 students carried signs with slogans reading "No dice throw," "If you choose, we lose," "Don't test chaos theory on us" and "82% can't be ignored...
...Dusek, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's office, warns that some companies have misrepresented themselves, or swallowed up-front fees and then done nothing. Agrees Wayne Doss, director of Los Angeles County's Bureau of Family Support Operations: "There are people without the appropriate backgrounds playing dice with other people's money." Debbie Kline, of the independent Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (aces), calls the private agencies "vultures." And aces president Geraldine Jensen suggests that anyone who can afford to pay 30% of their support in fees could hire a lawyer: "At least then...
However, Shanker warned against jumping into privatizing schools without understanding the potential consequences. "I wouldn't just say let's role the dice and maybe this will work," he said...
...give the Simoleons away at random, you're rolling the dice. But if you give them to people who are secretly panarchists -- who have a vested interest in showing that E-money works -- it's a much safer...