Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 1993, after the ira exploded two bombs in London's financial center, the 1-sq.-mi. district called the City, officials threw a "ring of steel" around the area. Smaller streets have been closed off at one end, channeling traffic down just seven main arteries where police conduct random checkpoints and high-resolution cameras record license plates and drivers. Private businesses have also been encouraged to install cameras that sweep the streets, until nearly every square inch of the neighborhood is now surveyed. "We may not be able to stop all terrorist activities," says Michael Cassidy, a top planning...
...found the following spell in Madame Nack-wackyginger's Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo: The Best Spells and How to Cast Them (Random House, $14.95, hardcover...
YOUR ARTICLE ON SHOKO ASAHARA AND the toxic attack on Tokyo's subway system [Cover, April 3] presents another disturbing example of how a society can be held virtual hostage by extremists dedicated to carrying out their agenda through random acts of terror...
There are things that are predictable, but there was this episode where a fan of David Hasselhoff bursts into the Douglas Hofstadter newsgroup and says, "David Hasselhoff rules the world, do you agree? And that kind of random confusion is just so classic, and so funny. You get on the net and sooner or later you're going to see some sort of online, interactive erotica, that's just a function of time and where you are, but the Hasselhoff thing was so random. I just told my mother...
...knew this, disregard the translation] in '93 for two months in Arizona. It was the largest manhunt in Arizona history." In response to why he sports Horning's mug shot on his chest, he says, "I wear it to annoy people and attract random questions. I've been told that it's offensive and that it's a personal problem of mine...