Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to find its most pathological expression among black males. Diagnostically speaking, interracial mating is for many elites an individual act of existential and psycho-cultural expatriation. Accordingly, it frees one from confronting certain unpleasant realities. In this context this means escaping from perhaps the most painful and historically complex aspect of blackness: the quality of life between black men and women. On this delicate subject it may be presumed that reasonable individuals may differ. Yet in the absence of morally and intellectually active role models, Harvard students' confused responses are in many cases quite understandable. Thus today...
...Artists United Against Apartheid, as many as 49 performers sing on Sun City, whose title evokes a Vegas-style entertainment complex stuck improbably in a South African "homeland." Jazz (Miles Davis) is on the record. So is folk (Jackson Browne, Raitt), Latin (Ruben Blades) and reggae (Jimmy Cliff), along with the royalty of rock, both domestic (Daryl Hall) and imported (Pete Townshend, Ringo Starr). Van Zandt's original concept for a single and a dance remix has become a mini-LP of material. Among the tracks: a coruscating jazz version of Sun City by Davis, Keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Bass Player...
America's trade problem is both complex and simple. Politicians, business executives and economists discuss such arcane tactics as dumping or trademark protection, but the basic questions are far less bewildering. Will America adopt a defensive or an offensive strategy in the world economy? Will the U.S. build up seemingly strong walls to protect its domestic industries against an onslaught of goods from abroad? Or will it strive to continue as a leading economic power at the forefront of technology by pushing into new markets at home and overseas...
...member staff of the Government's new Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. Thrown together hastily last year, SDIO still occupies temporary headquarters in a dingy Washington office building, which also houses an Interior Department group that regulates fish hatcheries. Soon the Star Warriors will move to a new building complex in suburban Virginia near the Pentagon. So far, SDIO administers some 1,000 contracts worth $1.1 billion for studies aimed at developing such products as lethal laser beams and lightning-quick battle computers...
...university scientists maintain that the whole idea is technically infeasible. One report says that the computers needed to manage a missile defense, for example, would have to be up to a million times as powerful as current machines. A program to run the Star Wars computers would be so complex that no human could comprehend it, and only other computers could write it. Furthermore, say SDI opponents, the computer system might be full of bugs because it could not be tested until an actual nuclear attack was under...