Perhaps swan sightings will occur more often than a random distribution around a mean would suggest.
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Police believe Mr Harkins was targeted and his murder was not a random attack.
We estimate that about 5 to 8 percent of a random sample of children have ADD.
Ten winners were chosen at random from all of the entries using a random number generator.
American regulators have said a random code will reduce confusion caused by mergers and acquisitions.
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Thank God for Geektown999 at a random online user forum I found who solved my problem.
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She actually discovered the enzyme, telomerase, while making a random, small change in her experiment.
In the short term such markets are, as the phrase goes, a random walk.
The letters "FONTAINE" might be visible on the back of a jersey in a random highlight.
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If you're a random guest at Thanksgiving, it's your job to be good at touch football.
Pretty much a random walk in the short term most of the time too.
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Doesn't this contradict his support for index funds in his book A Random Walk Down Wall Street?
In his 1973 book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, economist and Princeton University professor Burton G.
The data capture system only stores one item of information on your computer -- a random number.
Even if you hold a random lottery, potential winners still need to take the time to enter.
The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone among a random national sample of 1, 007 U.S. adults.
It was based on a random sample of 625 lone parents interviewed in 1991 and again in 1995.
The story came from a random gamer who has revealed his or herself through this blog, here.
Some may have fallen, but there's too much of it to be a random collection of dead animals.
As a consequence, it is no longer a conscious constraint choice, but is a random feature of the workplace.
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The survey by Ipsos MORI asked a random selection of more than 1, 600 patients from all Guernsey GP practices.
The small effect was just a random variation, not due to the treatment.
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Nature has used it like a giant computer running a random number generator.
It was Burton Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street , the classic on efficient financial markets.
The heavy concentration of bass-baritones was a random occurrence, but it made for some unusual duplication in the program.
At the conclusion of his presentation, Rohrer gave the USB drive to a random person in the front row.
And it should be a random as possible, avoiding common words, names, etc.
Earlier police said they did not believe the killing was a random attack.
"For that to happen 12 times in a row in a random circumstance is one in 540, 000, " he said.
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