Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cynics, this Jekyll-and-Hyde complex regarding the homeless isn't puzzling at all: Harvard students, they argue, are two-faced, selfish and career-driven. They join public service programs only to boost their resumes and then show their true colors when dealing with the poor in the Square...
Instead, Magna is something called a systems supplier. With more than 40,000 employees scattered across Europe, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, China and Brazil, it is one of a growing number of companies making ever larger and more complex parts of cars--like the metal-body exterior of BMW Z3 roadsters manufactured in the U.S., the instrument panel on the Jaguar XK8 and the passenger cell for the cute little Smart Car that German consumer Cerstin Stadeler was eyeing disapprovingly in Bonn. "It looks like one of those kid's toys that come in chocolate eggs," she says. "You know...
...component systems had been gathering steam for decades, but it was the recession of the early 1990s that got things boiling, especially in Europe. With profit margins pushed beyond the agony point, companies began letting their suppliers do more of the engineering and preassembly of integrated systems in increasingly complex cars. Air-bag makers like Sweden's Autoliv, for example, started buying up or forging partnerships with companies that make sensors, steering wheels and other related products and offering car companies complete, preassembled safety systems...
...lutes from different periods had different numbers of courses. This is one of the most interesting things about the lute: because it was constantly changing and advancing, it is impossible to pin down precisely what its physical characteristics are. As manufacturing techniques improved, the instrument became more and more complex. Better access to materials led to a greater numbers of ribs in the body, and new treatments of gut led to a greater range of strings. So the middle Renaissance lute had six courses whereas later instruments had up to 13 or 14. The shape of the body also changed...
Various and complex tunings were used to achieve different tonal effects, and the move from the Renaissance style to the Baroque was distinctly audible over the course of the concert. It is this that is most interesting in the lute music: its ceaseless movement from one chord to the next, from one style to another. It is music never satisfied with itself, never stationary: It is dynamic and as intellectually satisfying as it is aesthetically pleasing...