To do this, he and his team took a random sample from the corpus, checked what proportion were non-words and extrapolated that to the whole lot.

ECONOMIST: Science invades the humanities

Ralph Taylor of Temple University testified that Hispanics are more likely to be checked for immigration status during saturation patrols than non-Hispanics are.

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Passengers may be thoroughly checked, but behind-the-scenes security is slack or non-existent, with inconsistent screening of mail, cargo and baggage, and an inadequate police presence, it said.

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Few white Britons or Germans will have their papers checked by a suspicious policeman or be refused a job interview because of a non-French surname.

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