Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the January inflation report, which included a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the largest in two years, many economists dismissed it as at least a partial aberration and predicted only a moderate 0.4 climb in February...
Protest changed Whitlock's mind in 1974. The Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life created a partial lottery system, from which the current housing lottery process has evolved...
...partial lottery pleased so many that in 1976 it was expanded into a full lottery based completely on numerical preference. Students ranked their choices, and the lottery went through each group's choices completely before passing to the next number...
Some students and administrators have viewed the brouhaha over partial randomization as a mandate for an uncompromising answer--Let the Lottery be Randomed, or Let it be by Choice. There can be no fairness, critics say, unless we have all or nothing...
...Partial randomization offers token diversity at the expense of student choice. The sacrifice of some freshmen guinea pigs in a lily-livered attempt to pay lip service to diversity would only serve to alienate those unlucky frosh...