Word: randomized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start talking to a friend, softly enough so that it's clear you don't intend to be overheard but loudly enough so that you know you will be, about how of course the administration likes to tell everyone that housing assignments for first-year blocking groups are completely random, but since it's a known fact that more people are graduating this year from Pforzheimer. Cabot and Currier Houses than from any of the other Houses, the computer program that assigns housing this year will automatically select out blocking groups with 12 or more people and make those groups...
Although the subcommittee thought that a random phone survey might produce more statistically significant data, he said the decision to use the electronic surveying devices in dining halls was seen as a more realistic option...
...books hitting the stores, like Dianne Hales' thoughtful and eloquent Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female (just published by Bantam) and anthropologist Helen Fisher's The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Will Change the World (due from Random House in May). But it's Angier, who has already won a solid reputation (and a Pulitzer Prize) at her day job, who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like...
...compiled his collegiate memories, loosely and occasionally associating them with his former music teacher's amazing vocal ability (a connection just as random as it sounds). While Chaudhuri claims the novel attempts to reconcile the English world with the protagonists Indian childhood, the pages read more like an inventory of incidents enveloped in a romantic haze...
...think the transition has been pretty smooth.It's a little calmer now, not that they wereAnimal House before that," says A.D. member KeithL. Cynar '00. "There were random people showing upon certain nights. There had been lines outsideand unwanted visitors...