Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casey confused? His manner may be bumbling and his mumble legendary, but associates contend that Casey, a speed-reader with an ability to assimilate complex information quickly, has one of the sharpest minds in the Government. "Bill Casey's the brightest guy I've met in my life," declares Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA counsel and now a federal judge. Casey's speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman...
...jail sentence for a first offense of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. Young, who has beefed up Detroit's police force over the past 18 months and helped organize community action against crime, described the ordinance as "little more than a fig leaf covering . . . a very complex and very serious problem...
Albert Carnesale, academic dean of the Kennedy School, yesterday lauded Kalt's "superb capability for explaining extraordinarily complex subjects without sacrificing accuracy...
...certainly were as much the "feel-good" administrators as our present leaders are, except they thought that the best way for government to meet that modest mission was to be a stabilizing influence. One should not forget that it was Eisenhower who first noted and tagged the "military-industrial complex," while it was Reagan, who, through the well-charted link of his Cabinet officials to Bectel, arms merchant to the Middle East, is now famous for institutionalizing that fearsome coalition...
...alarm. Hospital representatives faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and a good one (with high death rates due to very complex patient cases). The daylight of data has starkly shown the poverty of measurement methods...