Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with turntables rotating iron gates, marble pillars and big makeshift barricades. Nickleby told of virtue rewarded and villainy punished, while Les Miserables depicts a world less blessed with moral order. But whether or not Les Miserables can match Nickleby's commercial impact, it is extraordinarily ambitious and exciting. Its complex story unfolds with clarity and urgent speed, although at times it seems overeager to please with romantic or comic distractions. Claude-Michel Schonberg's score is almost operatic in its emotional intensity and its use of themes and variations, yet it provides hummable pop tunes. Like Jesus Christ Superstar...
...Friend, for example, created an electronic periodic table for use in his general chemistry classes. Another chemist, Allan Smith, designed a "molecular editor" that can display, rearrange and rotate crystal structures made up of as many as 99 atoms. Mathematician Bernard Kolman created a program that will solve complex matrix algebra problems and explain each step along the way. Electrical Engineer Banu Onaral developed a series of programs that generate wave forms on the screen and manipulate them according to the basic rules of signal processing. "These are very theoretical subjects that require some brain gymnastics to be understood," says...
What the Government intends to prove, Volz declared, is that the defendants used lying, bribery and influence peddling to obtain valuable state certification for phony hospital and nursing- home corporations, which they then sold for some $9 million. Volz did admit that the alleged caper involved some "complex shenanigans...
...That complex merger calls for Forstmann to sell Revlon's beauty-products business to Adler & Shaykin, another New York investment firm, for about $900 million. Forstmann will spin off several other Revlon units to New York-based American Home Products for an estimated $350 million. The transactions will leave Forstmann with the rest of Revlon's health-care business, including prescription drugs and contact lenses...
With Joshua Shapiro our given ethnic is Jewish, persecution-complex and all. "Look how they eat?" we gasp as Josh egregiously woofs down a fancy plate at a posh WASP-establishment restaurant. "They do that?" we squeal as Joshua exhibits the dishonesty of Yer-Basic-Semite on the time-honored subject of money. Shock-shlock, no ands ifs or buts...