Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II as a take-off point for flying over the Hump into China, work is being rushed on a refugee camp, a hospital and maternity station. Unlike the Hungarian refugees, who were easily absorbed in Western countries, Tibetans may have serious difficulty adjusting to any society more complex than their own, and are ill-fitted for prolonged existence in the steamy, elephant-haunted jungles of Misamari...
...reasons why Michigan, one of the nation's wealthiest states, has reached a point where it cannot pay its employees are both complex and controversial. The simplest explanation is that expenditures over the last three years have exceeded incoming revenue...
However, Jordan indicated that, as college administrative problems grow more and more complex, some type of merger might become advantageous. As a result of this increasing burden, there has been a growing number of resignations from high college administrative posts, and last month McCall's Magazine stated that this was the compelling reason behind Jordan's recent resignation...
...would be easy to adapt, except for the problem of providing a service entrance off busy Massachusetts Ave. But, before commuters can occupy Lehman, the Comptroller's Office must move out, and this change must wait until the College raises $10 million to build its Health Center-Office Building complex on the block where Dudley now stands...
...react to "second-class citizen" as a "stock phrase," the majority considered it--and rejected it--as a description of the commuter, the most typical comment being "nonsense" followed by one of more exclamation points. Others, however, saw a "grain of truth." "Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity I get for being...