Life is a series of heads and tails, and human beings try to describe rationale behind them ... when in fact it may be random.

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In fact, they are random.

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In perhaps the best-known example of standards abuse, Rambus was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of helping to develop standards for dynamic random access memory chips without disclosing the fact it held patents on key parts of the technology.

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In fact, the entire game is random, pitting you against some seriously tough situations with only your wits, and your preparedness, to save you.

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Using a series of experiments on both business executives and a random selection of adults, Brescoll et al found that after the fact, firms that conveyed an empathetic, responsibility-taking message ended up losing much less public trust than those taking more defensive or noncommittal stances.

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But most disruptive has been the fact that now weapon drops only exist in the levels as random occurrences.

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It would also cover, no doubt, dozens of incidents in which the fact that a victim is black or homosexual or Catholic is purely incidental to a random act of violence.

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In fact, it has long been known that exit polls, though they may claim to be based on random samples, suffer from biases in the way that they are conducted.

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That second audit has now been questioned on many grounds including the fact that, through a set of careless procedures, the observers could have been duped when selecting a random sample of centres to audit.

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