Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bought another. Booze was also a problem, so he went instantly dry during the summer after graduation. Weeks later, sipping soda in a Washington saloon as some pals drank harder stuff, he was seized by a thirst for "deeper spiritual meaning" in his life. Reed chose a church at random from the Yellow Pages, went there the next morning and soon became a born-again charismatic, abandoning the genteel Methodism in which he had been reared...
Washington -- Random House better hope that Colin Powell has a good memory. Last week the publishers agreed to pay the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff $6 million for his yet-to-be-written memoirs. However, Powell told Time that he's going to have to rely on memory for some of the details because he never took notes at meetings or kept a journal. For the latter part of his career he does have his secretaries' logs for appointments and telephone calls. Although he'll use a ghostwriter, Powell is learning computer word processing...
...three centuries. At least one thing seems certain. The ancient Mesopotamians did not cause the heavens to dry up. That raises the ominous possibility that it could happen again. And that modern humanity, by dumping pollutants into the atmosphere, is tinkering with a climatic system more complex and random than humans have realized...
...Woodruff killed by criminals in a botched stickup? Or by an overzealous guard at a checkpoint? Or by assassins gunning for him or Gogoladze? The murder remains a mystery. American officials say the killing may have been a random event. Highwaymen regularly prey on motorists along that road. Although three locals were detained and questioned by Georgian authorities several days after the murder, a U.S. official says they were "not political." Two FBI agents flew to Tbilisi last week to participate in the investigation...
...Senator Simon, Mr. Turner and their boosters to claim that TV causes random violence, they must plumb the depths of cynicism. Young people do perceive "the violent message" of television, but they are too stupid to absorb anything else, even if it is just as obvious. This comes from men of a generation, which relies on its children to operate its VCRs...