Word: randomly
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...problems with how Coopers andLybrand conducted its independent audit. Forstarters, GAO officials say the company didn'tchoose a random starting point in the MedicalSchool's books, a usual practice for this type ofaudit...
...seafood industry, according to a new study that will appear in the February issue of Consumer Reports magazine. The study, carried out by investigative reporter Trudy Lieberman, found widespread contamination and mislabeling of seafood in retail fish shops and supermarkets in New York City and Chicago. Of the 113 random samples of fish purchased in both cities, 29% were spoiled and 44% were contaminated with fecal bacteria; 40% of the swordfish samples had an impermissible level of mercury...
What makes some companies so good to work for while others are so bad? Good companies, writes Robert Levering in A Great Place to Work (Random House; 312 pages; $18.95), instill a sense of trust that encourages everyone to pull together. Bad companies, which Levering says are far more common, undermine trust by manipulating workers and treating them as interchangeable parts. Based largely on interviews with executives of 20 widely admired companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Delta Air Lines, this feisty book includes a potshot-filled critique of leading U.S. management gurus...
...psychologists therefore designed a test focused on the ability to discern and later recall the location of objects in a complex, random pattern. In series of tests, student volunteers were given a minute to study a drawing that contained such unrelated objects as an elephant, a guitar and a cat. Then Silverman and Eals presented their subjects with a second drawing containing additional objects and told them to cross out those items that had been added and circle any that had moved. Sure enough, the women consistently surpassed the men in giving correct answers...
With little else to do, many have turned to random -- and racially motivated -- violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes motivated by hatred of foreigners in 1991, vs. only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a trolley car to his death in Dresden; a Vietnamese was stabbed nearly to death in Leipzig; some Soviet children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and were convalescing in a special children's home in Zittau, 150 miles south of Berlin, were assailed by a gang of stone-throwing drunks who shouted, "Jews...