Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported last week that its lie- detector program had uncovered 22 security risks over the past three years. Eleven of the subjects admitted that they had spied for foreign governments. , Four others said that relatives or close associates were engaged in such activities. Some of those who took the random examinations were applying for Government jobs, some held Government posts. Most of those tested had been cleared for sensitive security access through normal checks. In one chilling incident, a U.S. citizen seeking top-secret clearance was found dead in his car shortly after he failed a polygraph test. National Security...
...city's random ethnic mix and match often manage to achieve an improbable harmony. One recent Thursday evening in Flushing, six drinkers sat at the bar of the Lychee Village restaurant: a black, an Indian, a Korean, two Chinese and, discussing educational policy with one of the Chinese men, a middle-aged white. "We have all kinds," says Owner William Ming. "German, Irish, South African, black, white, Chinese, Korean, all steady customers. They like each other. Why shouldn't they?" In the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, the city's most eclectic immigrant community of all, the congregation of the First...
...Random House; 203 pages...
...July 19--the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." The novella-length story is an exercise in escalating gruesomeness, and the urgency and awkwardness of the narrative lend credence to the preposterous. So does the setting, a supermarket where a random bunch of shoppers have been trapped by what may be the end of the world. Familiar brand names anchor the incredible; a flying monster invades the store and is set on fire by the beleaguered defenders, finally crashing "into the spaghetti sauces, splattering Ragu and Prince and Prima Salsa everywhere...
...Random House; 247 pages...