Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This highly complex, most professional diplomatic deal was closed by signing with quill pens one protocol, eight accords and declarations, three exchanges of notes. Total: about 5,000 words...
Give a biologist a pinch of slime mold-primitive but living protoplasm-and he will have no difficulty predicating an evolutionary ascent, from that bit of animate substance, which leads to large, complex and reasoning beings like himself. Yet the prime question remains: How did the first bit of life appear on earth...
...produced a chemical known as methylcholanthrene, a complex compound of hydrogen and carbon which is very powerful in producing cancer in test animals. This chemical can also be obtained from the bile acids of the human body; therefore, cancer cay be the result of abnormal physiological actions which lead to the manufacture within the body of some chemical of the methylcholanthrene type...
...killing undistributed profits tax entirely, substituting a flat 18% levy on all corporate income, with exemptions for corporations earning less than $25,000; 2) killing the House's complex capital gains tax, substituting a flat 15% on capital gains arising from the sale of assets held over 18 months, reducing taxes on short term capital gains and capital gains by taxpayers in low income brackets; 3) an amendment introduced by Idaho's Borah removing exemption provisions from all future issues of Government securities...
...prestige and the national culture of national advertising. "No human eye," says Author Mumford, "can take in this metropolitan mass at a glance. No single gathering place except the totality of its streets can hold all its citizens. No human mind can comprehend more than a fragment of the complex and minutely specialized activities of its citizens. There is a special name for power when it is concentrated on such a scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions...