Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber Co. From his Houston headquarters, Hurwitz seems puzzled that other people care about some big trees Pacific owns in Humboldt County, California...
...least 10 employees of the executive office of the president have been targeted for drug tests to be conducted at random times, according to Patsy Thomasson, director of the White House Office of Administration. Congressional Republican sources claim the tests are necessary because background checks ^ uncovered recent or extensive drug use among the Executive Office staff -- a group totaling more than 1,000, ranging from clerical workers to senior officials...
...despite the talk about statistical analysis and random populations, the book strays suspiciously from the standard scientific Protocol. Perhaps the cover, a lurid, close-up shot of a woman's navel surrounded by pink orchids, gives it away. Or the font used in the title lettering, highly reminiscent of a Harlequin romance novel. The interior of the book also betrays any serious scientific aims. Ogden's prose is casual, interrupted by sporadic fits of lyricism: "We allow the energy to reverberate in our consciousness and beyond." Now how exactly does that fit into a Venn diagram...
...system through which students and tutorsinteract, however, varies from house to house.Many houses offer sophomore nonconcentrationadvising which consists of a few meetingsdiscussing students' social and academic situationand concerns. The matchups are either random orbased on some shared academic interest...
Although "Naked in New York" has a talented cast, and is artsy in the latest sort of surreal-random style (and with-it enough to make fun of traditional black-shirt despairing types of artsyness) a layer of superficiality suffocates the film, rendering it tiresome...