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We are still developing suspect information. But, it appears the victim and the suspect knew each other. This is not a random act.

We are still investigating, but there was an ongoing problem between these two. It wasn't a random shooting.

Random House Films is going to allow us to sell a lot more copies of books transposed to film. As well it will allow us to promote new authors.

Random House would have preferred not to have this lawsuit and spend money defending the book and Dan Brown, but they've certainly not been hurt by it.

Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy from Kiss. Gene Simmons has literally been in the audience at my shows, like, four times. I don't know if he knows me; he's just a big fan of comedy.

The thing I enjoy most about quiz bowl is that it is both a team and an individual competition. Even though you compete as a team, a whole game can change based on the random knowledge of one person.

DRAM (dynamic random access memory) prices have come back a little bit. Although they are not that strong, we expect them to be stable or improve for the rest of the year,

Banks have been careful not to put too much on the end-user. Look at PIN codes. We had four digits. People in the data-security world said that four digits are not secure because they are easily compromised by random number generators, and users would probably use years and birthdays. Then why did banks do that? Because four digits is the least common denominator that the public won't have to write down.

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Although Microsoft has stated that customers want predictable releases, they have made no effort to make the availability of service packs predictable. Service packs, which are typically loaded with features are totally random events that IT cannot plan for. Because they contain hot fixes and security updates, customers have to roll them out. So I don't anticipate a quick update to Vista.

And I guess next will be the garbage cowboy. We'll be doing this on random days, at random times with random haulers.

They still all appear to be random victims, ... They don't appear to be anyone's enemy, don't appear to be involved in anything coordinated. Just simply random targets, innocent people who happen to be in the area and have been unduly harmed.

They're the people that are likely to give random acts of kindness, like a hug. They don't get credit for that.

They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may still not be spotted.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

People who compose music for video need the best resolution video footage to give them the sense of the scene, ... With the XDCAM discs, they have that quality, plus the added befits of instant random access.

There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the most part, these are the exceptions.

There are an awful lot of relationships in contemporary America that are unfamiliar to traditional American law. American law is either going to recognize and accommodate them, or to ... rearrange assets in what is basically a random fashion.

This continues the venerable Darwinian tradition of making grandiose claims based on piddling results. There is nothing in the paper that an ID proponent would think was beyond random mutation and natural selection. In other words, it is a straw man.

This appears to be a random or chaotic process, where there is a continual exchange of energy and angular momentum between the moons.

A false face is always hidden behind a smile.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

I've gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, 'Hi, I think you're cute. Are you single?' I'm not smooth. I just put it out there.

If random screening must be introduced, they should target select underground and rail stations rather than discriminating against individuals.

I'm happy they caught the guy. It was a random thing. I think he was full of Jack Daniels, had a bad day at work. It was pretty crazy.

I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world's tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall.

If you look at the very young stars in the cluster and the spacing between them, it isn't random spacing. They're all about the same distance apart.

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

Not including metal detectors and pre-computer screenings, 12 to 15 percent of passengers are pulled aside for random security checks, ... If there is a strange or unusual contour on someone's clothing that needs scrutinizing, we will pull them aside.

On a random winter day, I got a call from one of the legends in coaching. I was very flattered.

Absolutely be random in choosing your password and mix in random numbers and symbols, too. And change it often, like monthly.

You tell somebody you're an improviser and they think you're doing Random Acts of Comedy and it's just like, a bastardization of what I think is the purest form of art. People still don't get it, they still don't understand that...well, number one, it's hard to prove to people that you're improvising when you're on TV. They don't believe it.

It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'

It sounds like it was a random criminal action because there was an individual who used his credit cards, which is not really the action of somebody who has actually targeted someone in terms of kidnapping.

Evolution no longer looks like a random process to me; it looks like a set-up job. My sense is that we'll discover the means to detect the design scientifically.

As you may know, I've just completed my memoir for Random House. Many of the questions you've asked are discussed at length in there.

The continued weakness in DRAM (dynamic random access memory) prices, driven by excess capacity, combined with recent financing difficulties in Asia, are causing many of our DRAM customers to reevaluate their capital spending plans,

Clearly (this was) an intentional execution. Not just a random act. Nothing stolen. This wasn't a burglary.

In the last year alone, TSA has required passenger air carriers to triple random inspections of cargo, hired an additional hundred cargo inspectors to ensure compliance, launched a risk-based approach to provide additional vetting of indirect air carriers, and is testing new technologies to more effectively inspect the full spectrum of cargo.

In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

It was just a very random thing. Random things happen in this world. I'm most happy he tried that before I got my kids. Otherwise, my 3-year-old would have been sitting in that seat. Anyway, all's well that ends well.

They will ask random cars that are going through the area to pull over into a median, it's a safe area, and answer questions. it should only take one or two minutes.

It was not random people walking in off the street. They were brought in by a Vanderbilt student who made it possible for these individuals to be at the party. When something like that happens, it's a potentially very dangerous situation.

It wasn't a random act. It appears this victim was an intended target and that this was not a robbery.

It wasn't as bad as it could have been elsewhere. I was really mad 'G' was gone. He was the head hitting coach. He drove the team. But Cabrillo brought in a couple of ex-major leaguers. They bring a lot to the table. I'm glad the school didn't bring in some random dude. This shows me it wants to see this thing get turned around.

I never wanted to be pigeonholed as one style of comedy. I want to be the kind of person you have a random back-and-forth with at a party. So that if you go to my show I could take irreverent, I could take subtle, I could take slapstick - pretty much anything I could think of that would be entertaining - and my audience would be with me.

A program that does not include random testing is not very effective.

Any random set of numbers, when played with as Hoagland did, will yield many coincidental mathematical relationships, ... His mathematical analysis is so full of holes, flaws, and misdirection that it is completely worthless.

The motive may never be known. It may have been a random thing. What set him off is the big question we're trying to find out.

The bull market only ends on a fundamental reason. It ends if inflation rises and rates rise. It ends if profits dive. It doesn't end because the Dow goes down on a random day based on program trading.

A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.

The magnitude and nature of these attacks -- the coordination, the sophistication of these attacks -- indicate to me that they are not sort of random acts by people who are just angry. These are long, prolonged, planned activities.

The magnitude of how many people were involved today caught people's attention in a way it hasn't before. People are no longer convinced these attacks are random and they are starting to worry about how they will affect the economy.

This is no random attack. This is the result of months of preparation by Sudanese officials and coordination with militias.

And I wove the thing to a random rhyme, For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.

These are clearly terrorist attacks because the targets were random and public places,

These are not the hasty responses of random people who participated in a test survey. These are actual responses from actual prospective jurors in this case who took time to carefully and thoughtfully write out their answers.

For decades, this country was second only to Albania, or even second to none, for keeping out all information about foreign countries. But the old state supervision, where the police would do random checks looking for things like radios, collapsed over the last decade. It was too expensive to run.

It's more of just taking what we had on the students and trying to introduce them to some 'flavor,' and have others gain some interest in it. It's not too much of one thing - people will get things in all areas of art. We'll have poetry, dancing and a bunch of random things that reflect on the department. It's been crazy trying to organize it and make sure everything is mixed in.

It's not just random breeding. A lot of this is planned according to species and available exhibit space.

It's a random act of violence that could happen anywhere.

It might have been a drive-by or a random shooting. I don't know. But I know whatever happened, it didn't happen here.

They have been most grateful for the opportunity to study here while their universities are closed and had been widely embraced by the Boston College community, which is why this random and unusual act of violence is so upsetting.

It was certainly well planned. There was some thought that went into this. It doesn't appear to be a random situation, ... These suspects came in with a mission and accomplished their mission.

It's a rubric of fast hardcore and random old blues stuff, like Lemon Jefferson and all these old blues guys. Also old power trios like Mountain and Cream.

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.

We were out walking the dogs last night so it's kinda spooky- you don't know if you can go back to where you normally take the dogs, whether something is gonna happen to you or your pet, whether on a random day someone's gonna walk up to your apartment and shoot you.

We are very confident that this was not a random act,

We're very fortunate that nobody was injured. We don't know that there was a motive for the shooting, if it was random or intentional, but if anyone knows anything, we want them to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

We felt that Random House had a deep commitment to the book.

It is that eternal struggle of good versus evil, that is so engaging to the mind of man and woman alike.

We have a concerned community here who was wondering if this was some random act of violence. We believe it was someone who knows the victims, and that this is an isolated incident.

We had a few players that had medical reasons. I don't know. I think it was just a bunch of random things that led to this.

There's a really close parallel to France. High unemployment, low family income, inferior education and training, inadequate housing, a great deal of hostility toward the police - we found that the level of hostility in the black sections of these cities was high enough that almost any random spark would set them off.

This is the kind of thing that happens with economic data. In any given month, you have random variations in price trends Those random changes tend to offset each other.

I am not working at random or just on a whim. Our movement has a deep spiritual origin. It came into being at this particular time by a mandate of God. I have a divine guiding light. Even though many people think I am just doing things my own way, there is no such thing as my own way.

I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's always useful. I've got lots and lots of random skills I'll probably never need again.

However, we don't conduct random sweeps. All our arrests are the result of investigations, evidence and intelligence.

ICE agents conduct operations every single day in locations around the country. Operations are not random sweeps, but carefully planned enforcement actions that result from investigative leads and intelligence.

Being able to work in a random access digital world means you can spend more of your time writing music rather than rewinding or fast forwarding through tape to find the scene you want.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

The market will be very volatile and uncertain. The moves are random and there's no consistency in the markets.

All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe book on how to defend yourself against monsters.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

Random things make me laugh.

I have never been very good at being a member of any group - more than a group of two, that is.

Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been ... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali . . . and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali.

Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else?

In common things that round us lieSome random truths he can impart, --The harvest of a quiet eyeThat broods and sleeps on his own heart.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.