Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rutger ushered me into the cockpit. "Precedent? There is no such thing as precedent in American foreign relations. Every case is decided independently, on a completely random basis. That way there's no favoritism." He added: "If we started rewarding people for being nice to us, what would we have? A world of sycophants...
...UNITED STATES' worst bureaucracy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is at it again. Devoid of compassion and ignorant of the word mercy, this mean-spirited agency is as close as America gets to the Gestapo; it terrorizes random individuals whose "crimes" are moot and who certainly have never endangered the safety of anyone...
...field in that tender-kneed way of his, a big, good-looking man, who was virtually undistinguishable under his helmet and football gear. At first, the bar's patrons would cheer just the brief mention of Lynch's name on national TV, but after a few years of such random mentioning by Summerall and Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell, they grew restless. They wondered when Fran would duplicate his two-touchdown feat against the Jets. But he never did. He carried the ball only rarely for the Broncos, when Little was hurt, and even then he was just a workmanlike...
...School study group, which consists of professors, doctors, researchers and policy makers, was formed in response to AIDS hysteria and the random solutions of quarantine and testing it provoked. The group is researching methods of screening for AIDS without violating civil liberties, says Jonathan H. Mermin '87-'88, a student who is taking this year off to initiate the study group. "The group is dealing with questions of accuracy, who to test and the political and social effects of tests," he says...
...Random House; 743 pages...