It's an interesting exercise to pick, at random, contest-winning books and notice the similar patterns of structuring (in fact, in the March/April 2011 issue, Poets & Writers published an article by April Ossmann advising how to order a collection to maximize the chances of winning).
Bumping contests and random number generating contests can win you some money.
The finalists will be chosen at random, but the contest winners will be selected as reality show contestants are, to make sure their stories fit.
For comparison, we also include three other types of agents in this contest, namely, random traders, agents from the wealth game (modified on the famous minority game), and agents from an upgraded wealth game.
So he is giving all 40 homemade, hand-signed pints away to the random winners of this contest.
Fertility clinics around the country have found that such promotions, which can include random drawings and essay contests, can be an effective way to raise their profiles and crowd their mailing lists with potential customers.
Mrs. Sauls said that she and the judge knew, from the moment he was assigned the Gore contest case by random selection, that all the attention would dredge up the memory of his "heartbreaking" humiliation at the hands of the Supreme Court.
In the analysis of tied contestants, correlations between contestants in the same contest were accounted for by including "contest" as a third random factor.
Now, as part of its National Family Caregivers Month activities, AARP has launched a Random Acts of Kindness for Caregivers Contest to encourage everyone to support America's 40 million caregivers.
