Word: randomizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solution, then, to the annual housing fiasco is a completely random lottery. Let freshmen choose with whom they wish to live, but end the complexity there and leave the rest to fate and the University Hall computer...
...synthesizing these elements, Reid doesn't bother to give his own plot any internal logic. The scenes don't build on one another; they seem to serve only to throw various characters together at random. The play's ending illustrates this lack of coherence and exposes the plot as an eccentric game of mix-and-match...
...commissioner's office will also "conduct systematic inspection of privatebusinesses to make sure they have adhered to thelaw," Chalfen said. The random checks will be madetwice a year, according to city officials...
...anybody gets bored, "work" is always there to divert our attention. There's no purposeful social setting, or hidden "friendly" agenda, and so there's no pressure to build conversations. We free associate through the shift with random spurts of silliness and sarcasm--a relaxed series of laughs and banter whose only structure is our scooping dance between customers...
Naipaul catches two fleeting glimpses of his landlord, but makes no attempt to meet him. The tenant is content with accidental information, the secondhand knowledge that he lives in the immediate vicinity and under the aegis of a bizarre depressive. The owner, rendered "more mysterious" by random images, takes his place in the writer's imaginative life, an intriguing possibility: "We were -- or had started -- at opposite ends of wealth, privilege, and in the hearts of different cultures...