Word: complexities
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...chair would somehow ease judicial pressure for integration were also shocked. The court did nothing to change the logic of decisions based upon the Brown precedent. Rather, the issue was timing: by commanding immediate compliance with the law, the Justices brought an urgent new perspective to the complex and long-delayed process of integration. The decision establishes a judicial canon that will probably end dejure segregation before the start of the 1970 school year, though full integration in the physical sense is a very different matter. At the same time, the judgment may well provoke confusion, scattered violence and, temporarily...
...miracle making than the men and women of the famed research center that bears his name. Now marking its 25th anniversary, the Weizmann Institute for Science has grown from an obscure agriculture station in the desert town of Rehovot, 15 miles south of Tel Aviv, to a 250-acre complex with 17 major departments that explore everything from atomic physics and molecular biology to seismology. Even the Arabs recognize its importance. It was one of the first targets that Radio Cairo claimed had been destroyed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war-though not a single Egyptian plane ever appeared over...
...know, a lot of board chairmen are here not because of the job, but because they want to live in California. Some top executives live here but commute to New York for five days a week. In fact, the speed of travel and communications today has ended the inferiority complex the California businessman used to have. The California industrialist is liberated from that old provincial feeling. And he shows it. He is tanned, he swims a lot, he is healthy?people are interested in the body out here. The California businessman is a rounded guy." I watch Mahoney stroll through...
Practitioners of econometrics use countless statistics to build complex mathematical models (see cut). The statistics are weighted according to the economists' own idea of their importance, and the result is intended to serve as a picture of the real world. The models vary, but they usually contain data about prices, wages, spending, savings, interest rates-and how a change in one will theoretically affect the others. Like the design for a new airplane, the model can be "tested" in a computer without the risk of painful mistakes. Even if the results are not wholly accurate, the discipline of building...
...Taylor keeps returning and returning to the past and to border-state Tennessee as it was, to examine its images and realities. What people think, the complexion of their blushes and disfigurations, the houses they decorate-these are the things Mr. Taylor's stories are about. Included in the complex stories is a subtle description of black-white relations in the thirties, forties, and fifties: as in the narration of a "fancy woman's" concern for what the kitchen help think of her when she visits a rich gentleman's house for a week. Or "A Wife of Nashville...