Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantages which the Communists would derive from the proposed Constitution were: 1) an all-powerful unicameral legislature, even more unhampered by checks and balances than the old French Assembly; 2) a new electoral law (not incorporated in the Constitution but closely tied to it) which would set up a complex form of proportional representation which seemed likely to favor the Communists; the electoral setup would emphasize parties rather than candidates-another help to the Communists, the best disciplined party. (Commenting on the voting system, famed French mathematician and Rightist Assemblyman Jacques Bardoux said: "I read these texts once without understanding...
Places, Not Faces. Such hog-on-ice independence is half the explanation of Fitz's success. The other half is his knack of dramatizing a complex issue by reducing it to a one-sided dimension in a few bold and simple strokes. He cannot draw likenesses well, so he almost never caricatures specific politicoes. (Though Fitz is in the forefront of U.S. political cartoonists, he is leagues behind the London Evening Standard's pixyish little New Zealander, David Low.) Fitz poured out his feelings about Prohibition (he likes liquor as much as he likes crap games) with...
Created by Howard Colwell Hopson, at one time a key man in New York state public utility regulation, Associated Gas was one of the most complex promotional extravaganzas of all time. Now, its capital structure deflated, its subsidiaries reduced by sales, mergers and liquidations from 179 to 46, it was thriving as a normal, healthy holding company. But neither normal nor healthy was Promoter Hopson; jailed for mail fraud and income-tax evasion, he went insane, is now in a New York sanatorium...
...bumbling, inefficient, nineteenth century Congress is not competent to cope with the complex problems of modern government. The need for Congressional reorganization, long heralded by political scientists, has been recognized by progressive Congressmen; and a joint, non-partisan committee, headed by Senator La Follette and Representative Monroney, has recommended a program of reform which is gratifyingly similar to that proposed by prominent university professors...
Simple v. Complex. In horse & buggy days, Protestantism's position was reinforced in every phase of U.S. life: church was the natural center for social gatherings, ministers were the cultural leaders of the community, Bible reading was a family habit. Today, changed conditions confront Protestantism "with a task for which the simple and direct methods appropriate to an age of simple and unorganized individualism are no longer adequate...