Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although it's a great deal of work, it is far preferable to the IBM method used at Yale," said Watson in a 1959 reference to the New Haven university's policy of random housing...
...freshman's eyes. In the common room buzzed two printers. In the bedroom sat Zach, frantically typing footnotes. He did not look up from under a three-day beard. Gil had been working on the bibliography at another Mac. Potato chip bags lay open on the bed; random chocolate chip cookies spotted the wood floors...
BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives murderous adventures to tell an incendiary tale...
CONGRATULATIONS, student protesters of the proposed partial randomization of the freshman house lottery. Last week's decision by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to reverse his February 1 endorsement of the masters' plan, which would have reserved a quarter of eight houses for random assignment, is a credit to coordinated student expression...
Persons concerned with the apparent unfairness to half a class who might face random assignment forget that the unfairness works to the benefit of the community, and it works within the ultimate numerical fairness of a random lottery. It's not number-crunching to say that the whole purpose of a lottery is geared to help fairly resolve unfair situations...