Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Publisher's Clearinghouse--Students are mailed applications. If they return them by a certain date, they are entered into a random drawing for room assignments. Early-bird applications are entered into a separate drawing for sweatshirts and Harvard banners. The winners are announced on WHRB by President Rudenstine...
...Partial randomization--Twenty-five percent of first-years are randomly selected to be randomly assigned to a random selection of houses. The rest are randomly assigned lottery numbers and randomly assigned to one of their four house choices. If those are full, they are randomly assigned to open space in any house...
...recently in Boston, Iwao Matsuda, the president of a Japanese university, was found murdered in his Back Bay hotel room. He had been visiting the country to formalize a "sister school" relationship with the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Was this just another random murder? The timing, at least, was perfect: a day before the internment's Day of Rememberance on February 19, when President Roosevelt handed down the order to begin internment of the Japanese...
...Nicholson Baker (Random House; $15). This novel masquerades as the transcript of a phone conversation between a man and a woman who have connected over an adult party line; beneath the talk runs a funny and sometimes chilling parable about relationships in the age of safe...
...staple nightly news programs continue to decline, Socolow said, "the random viewer will not be able to find information readily available...