Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of trouble has been that the Government has been trying to please everybody in managing the shortage. The Department of Energy has set up a hideously complex allocation system that essentially works like this: an oil company first sets aside 5% of whatever gasoline and diesel fuel it expects to have available each month to be used as state governments direct. It then sets aside as much more as may be demanded by certain priority users?police, for example. After that, it parcels out the remaining supplies among gas stations, essentially equally but with some adjustments; stations in areas...
...audience with Emperor Hirohito and an inspection of Western defenses in South Korea-should help reinforce relations with two of Washington's most valued Pacific allies. The Tokyo economic summit, however-the fifth such meeting of leaders of the largest industrial democracies*-is shaping up as a complex political obstacle course that is sure to magnify Carter's No. 1 current problem: energy...
DIED. John D. Murchison, 57, who teamed with younger brother Clint, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, to parlay their father's multimillion-dollar oil fortune into a vast empire (publishing, real estate, insurance, others); of a heart attack; in Dallas. So complex were the Murchisons' holdings that John joked, "If we're not careful, we may find out we're suing ourselves...
...Because of its free medical and educational programs, Sri Lanka today has one of the highest life ex pectancy and adult literacy rates in the developing world. But from the 1950s onward, socialist governments imposed increasingly stiff taxes on business to finance a maze of nationalized enterprises and a complex web of regulations that controlled everything from trade to foreign exchange...
Merrill is of course up to something more complex than chanting "No more nukes," although that message is undeniably in the work. The cosmology he assembles is as elaborate and beautiful as any set to poetry since Yeats wrote of gyres and phases of the moon. It also dances with humor. The late W.H. Auden, now an onlooker in heaven, plays an owlish Vergil to Merrill's Dante. "Did you realize," Merrill asks, "that people have plutonium in their lymph glands?" Auden taps back: SURELY ONLY THE BETTER CLASSES...