Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requests was for a unique dispensation from the tax code's complex "loss carry-back and carry-forward" provisions to permit Chrysler's net operating losses to be applied now against future profits. Result: Chrysler would get a refund from the Treasury equal to the amount of taxes it would have paid if it had had profits instead of losses...
Still handsome--at least when his face isn't covered in blood, bruise marks, or bandages--Stallone clearly has trouble the second time around finding any kind of story for his lovable character. Instead of developing Rocky into a more complex hero than the golden-hearted boxer from the slums of Rocky, Stallone blankly trots out the well-worn gimmicks that made his last movie a success. Meet Cuff and Link, Rocky's turtles, for the second time. See Rocky run through downtown Philadelphia again--this time followed by a ragtag of urchins that turns him into an Italian Pied...
...opened the way for organic chemists to synthesize a vast array of complex compounds of both intellectual and pharmaceutical interest," Westheimer added...
...automatic safety systems come quickly to the rescue. Control rods that had been pulled out earlier to bring the plant back on line are now reinserted. That "scrams," or shuts down, the reactor. Higginbotham and Helton move swiftly too, throwing switches, isolating complex plumbing and carefully monitoring critical meters as the emergency cooling system pours hundreds of gallons of cold water into the core. "Pressure's holding pretty good," says Higginbotham. Sighs Helton: "I think we're all right...
Flanagan's forte is his cast-some of them historical characters, others fictive-each invested with a complex, fascinating personality. Here is the reluctant scribe of rebellion, Owen Ruagh MacCarthy, a vagabond poet who scrounges a living by running an outlaw school, reciting his Gaelic verses in the houses of the rich and pursuing neutral grain spirits and colleens with unflagging energy. Here, in the cool rationality of Moore Hall, is MacCarthy's fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau...