Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, Midas satellites will be scattered through space in random patterns to keep an eye on the entire world...
Approval at the Polls. Senseless murder by bandits continues to plague the backlands, but the National Front has sharply reduced the random political assassinations between Liberals and Conservatives, which once threatened ultimate chaos. When election time came round again last May, the Front won an almost 2 to 1 endorsement at the polls. Colombia's voters approved the nation's new economic stability; they accepted Lleras' austerity for the sake of attracting foreign investment. The national debt has been cut, dollar reserves are up. An ardent champion of the Alliance for Progress, Lleras has pushed through land...
...NONEXISTENT KNIGHT & THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT (246 pp.)−Italo Calvino−Random House...
...find ourselves confronted by the random and unpredictable big news of the week, but the kind of news we seek out varies in the summertime, just as readers' interests change. Schools close, or go on summer schedule; theater becomes straw hat, or old hat; TV repeats itself. But one TIME section increases in interest and importance in the summer: sport...
Private Fish. The young executive who used to lunch in a neighborhood coffee shop advances to a private dining room or eats in a secluded club. When he becomes top brass, says Randall, he flies on executive airplanes, misses the conversation of a random seat mate. Even his recreation is isolated: "As chairman, his golf dates are rare, are always arranged in advance by his secretary, and the foursome is invariably selected from not over six possibilities. If duck shooting is his sport, he will be found at a small private club where no uncouth voice is heard...