Word: randomed
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...only decision he could, given what he knew and when he knew it. The U.S. rules of engagement are not unreasonable, | considering the situation in the Persian Gulf, and the Aegis system apparently worked as it was supposed to. The tragedy seems to have resulted from a collision of random events (an airliner taking off at the moment a naval battle was beginning, for example) with inflexible technology in a pattern that could conceivably happen again. The Navy immediately began searching for ways to guard against that possibility, including the obvious step of feeding information about scheduled civilian air flights...
Ronald Reagan pronounced himself "upset" and said the incident underscored "the need for mandatory testing." In fact, random testing of present | White House employees and pre-employment testing of future Secret Service hires is about to begin. In addition, Nancy Reagan might be well advised to direct some of her "just say no" lectures to her own staff...
Moreover, Wright received an unheard-of royalty of 55% (normal would be 10% to 15%) on sales of an alleged book, a thin and uninteresting collection of random thoughts published by a Fort Worth printer and longtime Wright pal. Some of the buyers have candidly admitted that they bought the book in bulk as a way to make donations to Wright that would have been legally forbidden in any other form...
...Susan's book about her father was published in 1984, several years before an important glitch arose in the writing of such works: J.D. Salinger successfully sued to prevent Biographer Ian Hamilton from generously quoting or even closely paraphrasing unpublished letters. After enduring that expensive, lengthy and losing litigation, Random House, Hamilton's publisher, grew understandably cautious about forthcoming biographies on its list. One of the first to be scrutinized in light of the new legal landscape was John Cheever: A Biography. Says Gerald Hollingsworth, Random House's chief legal counsel: "As a result of the Salinger case, we paid...
More than a million lie-detector tests were given in the U.S. last year, 90% of them by private employers to their workers. Most polygraphs were for routine screening of job applicants or random testing for deterring theft. Last week the Senate passed a bill limiting the use of polygraphs in job screening for all workers except security guards and those with access to controlled substances. The new law was necessary, said Senator Edward Kennedy, to protect people from "20th century witchcraft . . . inaccurate instruments of intimidation." An employer could still test a worker reasonably suspected of wrongdoing. But the bill...