The powerful council, which supervises elections and has wide-ranging powers in the Islamic government, said a random recount of 10 percent of the ballot boxes nationwide upheld Mr.Ahmadinejad's landslide victory over reformist challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

But an even more astounding result for us from this survey, which encompassed 1,000 adults a random telephone survey in January of this year, was that over 800 of the respondents - that's over four out of five people - say they are still buying green products, still buying green products in a very severe recession."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

We have corporate challenges where everybody who has signed up gets put on a team at random, so you get to meet new people and try and succeed.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16