Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Issues now are desperately complex, he stated, and liberals are nostalgic for the days of McCarthyism because it was so clearly an enemy of democracy that it represented a positive challenge to the liberal cause...
Military agencies are geared for "maximum readiness" and are too complex for proper decisions, Livingston charged, therefore "military weapons planning procedures and organization must be by-passed...
...University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...
...circuit is on, another for when it is off. But this primitive off-again-on-again arithmetic, combined with the ability to memorize numbers, to compare them and act on the comparison, goes at such fantastic speed and in such volume that the machine can solve the most complex problems in a matter of minutes or seconds...
FISCAL Monetary Study by C.E.D. Despite the fabulously complex growth of the U.S. economy, no major study of the country's monetary system has been undertaken for nearly 50 years. Early this year Congress turned down President Eisenhower's appeal for such a study, and almost every previous Congressional investigation has turned into a partisan political probe. Last week the Committee for Economic Development announced receipt of a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for the first full-scale inquiry into U.S. monetary policies since the Aldrich Commission of 1908, which laid the foundation of the Federal...