Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone with heart disease knows that if you survive a first attack, life becomes a long, complex negotiation with the menace--the killer in black pajamas who has come to live in the basement. You hear him down there. Sometimes he climbs the stairs and beats on the kitchen door. You feed him sublingual pellets of nitro and tell him to settle down...
...International Space Station wasn't always so complex a beast. The idea of a permanent U.S. orbital platform was first proposed by Ronald Reagan in his State of the Union address in January 1984. For all the station's great size, Reagan envisioned it as a fairly fat-free piece of engineering: a lean, $8 billion cluster of modules that could be manufactured on the ground, be assembled in space and go into service by 1992. Orbiting Earth 200 miles up, it would serve as a flying laboratory for inventing new materials and conducting pharmaceutical work. More important, it would...
...shift in work culture is complex, but there's one really practical factor that accounts for the flourishing world of small business: you can do it fast and do it cheap. You can replicate all the functions of a fancy corporate office in your two-room quarters in the office park. This holiday season, computers are packed with such goodies as 333-MHz speed, fat hard drives, plenty of memory, bundled office suites that take you from spreadsheets to word processing to building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print...
...downplaying these small moments of mayhem,Ethan Frome pays homage to Wharton, making them all the more powerful. Ethan Frome is not sturm und drang, but rather a tale of mute desperation. Allanbrook Sr. and Hunt should be commended for keeping their opera true to a difficult, complex novella...
...center is like a campus; it constitutes a cluster of many buildings, all of which Meier designed. Here the public parts of the complex are aligned with the freeway and UCLA, while the areas with more private needs (i.e. the library) are on the residential seaside. He aimed to use the outdoor spaces in this development just as much as the indoor spaces. Considering the elaborate arrival area, which allows visitors to rest, eat and plan outside before entering the complex, as just one of many examples--I think he succeeded...