Word: randomized
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ACLU Treasurer Robert Letzler said the probability that this configuration of students occurred at random is only .001 percent, smaller than the 5 percent probability usually accepted as statistically random...
...example, in "Everything Is Cool," the band segues from a calm melody to a scream of, "I wish you were dead!" their language is clean. So, to make up for this deficiency, the band has added a hidden track--a little over 11 minutes of playing around and using random obscenities to no particular end (though, admittedly, the short gangsta' rap imitation is rather amusing...
...generic situation: You meet a person in a somewhat random environment (in our case, the shuttle). You and said person have moderately interesting conversation for a finite duration of time (a shuttle ride, of in other cases, an airplane trip, walking from Dunster to the Science Center with a third person, etc.). You proceed to go on with the rest of your day, not stopping to think twice about the conversationalist. He (or she, as the case be) definitely does not forget you and proceeds to either initiate contact with you or your friends to find out more information about...
Hicks: All of my friends know by now and random people at clubs come up and tell me that I should compete again. I have a family of conservative Southern Baptists in rural East Texas, but I told my mom about my stripping because she's a closet liberal. She encouraged me to get a leather jacket and earring in seventh grade when I attended a school where we weren't even allowed to have long hair--so I figured my new hobby wouldn't bother her too much...
Evans, a longtime journalist and, until recently, president and publisher of Random House, is now editorial director of the New York Daily News, U.S. News & World Report and Atlantic Monthly. His American Century is told in black-and-white photographs, sprightly essays and lengthy commentaries flavored with personal observations...