Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Violence in South Africa has unfortunately become epidemic. Here in the U.S., the nightly news regularly contains reports of the random killing that occurs in the townships. Images of men corralled in burning tires or beaten to death with grotesquely barbed polearms plaster our television screens with fair frequency. But the killing that took place so close to me was different. The thief did not strangle the woman because of politics or clan rivalry, which lead to so much of the violence in the country. His only motivation was greed. He was a burglar who saw an opportunity...
...final clubs' "punch" process isn't random. These clubs remain an enclave of the rich, prep-schooled and well-connected, and they don't pretend otherwise. They exist to continue that social stratification; closing the doors to everyone but themselves and their wealthy alumni ensure that the ruling class continues to receive its undeserved perks...
...took statistics as well as a number of fairly random classes which gave me few clues about where I want to be a year from now. And a really bad gradepoint average. Really, really...
...communications I had received from North House over the summer assured me that my nightmares (and dreams) of a random, forced house transfer wouldn't be realized. More worrisome were my fears about sharing a double with a first-year archenemy or surviving a triple with the editors of Peninsula and Perspective...
...which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random outbreak shattered the night in Johannesburg. In two separate attacks, gunmen with automatic weapons sprayed buses loaded with homeward-bound black commuters, killing 21. The toll of factional violence has reached 1,500 deaths since...