Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dialed a seven-digit number and logged onto the GTE Telenet Communications Network. The teenager began roaming through the New York area of the national system that ties more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands of miles away. Finally he hit the jackpot, Instead of a flat "password invalid...
...natural circumstances, the initial distortion of cell life that leads to cancer could be caused by a random mutation, man-made chemicals, or any number of still unsuspected causes...
...people in New York's Hall of Fame are Aquarians." This is no more inaccurate than Reagan's statistical statements usually are; the birthdates of the members of the Hall of Fame (the membership of which has remained unchanged since 1977) are actually scattered throughout the year in a random nattern. The largest numbers per month (10 to 15) are in February, April, July and November, making 80 percent in any one of the 12 signs of the zodiac obviously impossible. Arthur Bernstein
...LATTER part of the play, however, Canetti abandons the random vignettes to scrutinize Fifty's plight, bringing the drama into sharper focus. Fifty's rebellion provides the play with some much-needed action, but more important, it provides several of the minor characters a chance to do more than merely narrate. Whereas Fifty's friend spends the first half of the play telling us how his sister died, in the second half he is able to express how he felt about...
Nearly 64 percent of the 407 Harvard students questioned in the random telephone sampling said they would vote for the Minnesota Democrat, while 27 percent told pollsters they would turn out for Reagan in next Tuesday's election...