Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite $2000 worth of full-page advertisements in The Crimson and a program mailed to every undergraduate at the end of August, a random survey of scores of undergraduates over the last several days revealed a lack of knowledge about the College-wide events slated to start October 8. For most students, awareness of the 350th was limited to the ball and their special house events because those invitations have been distributed...
...film opens stunningly. A blue velvet curtain furls like a stage partition, and in the foreground credits emerge and fade. Bobbie Vinton's "Blue Velvet" wells up, and Lynch gives us a picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with...
...controversial part of the President's plan is the recommendation for random drug testing of 1.1 million federal employees. In discussing the proposal last week, a Cabinet counsel agreed that a worker who flunks his first test should undergo drug treatment, but there was some dispute over whether a second failure should result in firing. Presidential Counsel Peter Wallison objected that dismissal "would be punitive." Shot back Education Secretary William Bennett, a hawk in the drug war: "It's meant to be punitive." Noting that his own plan for getting rid of drugs in schools called for expulsion of second...
...tearing our country apart, just like the Civil War did." Although most officials sincerely support that sentiment, even within the Administration there are some who are becoming cautious about turning the war on drugs into something resembling the Civil War's Wilderness Campaign, with a lot of frenetic and random shooting in all directions...
Others, cut off from the emergency exits, were caught in the random gunfire. Arun Athavale, of El Toro, Calif., saw a family of four sprayed by bullets but could not tell whether any survived. Athavale, who escaped injury by falling to the floor, said later, "Most of the people who got killed didn't duck." Outside the aircraft, people were walking around in a daze, too shocked to realize they were among the ones who had been spared...