Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ebert said last night the generics question "is a far more complex one than as it is normally presented." Instead of simply attacking brand-name, drugs, he said, students should "see that the cost of drugs is the real problem...
...many districts, and aggressive emphasis on national priorities or the military-industrial complex would seem out of place. Saltonstall must have felt that way too. He stressed his administrative experience with his father and chiefly relied on what Fox called the "old Bill Bates approach." Bates, the district's last Congressman, proposed to cater to the individual needs of every voter. Saltonstall called this the "people-to-people approach." It meant promising special favors for the shoe, fishing, leather, and electronics industries that make up the economy of the North Shore. Such a strategy unwittingly wrote off the growing proportion...
Student speakers, charging that the school's competition divides and isolates students, argued for complex curricular reform including pass-fail grading, mandatory written assignments, and smaller classes...
...RESOLUTION asking that the U. S. withdraw its troops poses greater problem than the Moratorium resolution; making a tactical recommendation on how to end the war is a more difficult and complex question than making a statement of opposition in principle to the conflict. Nevertheless, it should be plain that unilateral withdrawal is no longer a radical peace proposal and has become instead the only reasonable way to end the war quickly. All the theories which informed our intervention- "communist aggression," "the domino theory" and "containment"- have been officially abandoned, but the killing continues. Our "prestige" and our Presidents' sense...
...should be doing anything to put off the end. For we don't like to see mass suffering, and the symptoms of the end, millions shortening their lives on polluted air and starving to death in overpopulated countries, are already with us. And because the binds of a complex technology make our every action a cause or effect on someone else's life, we are responsible for their agony...