Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Failure. By its action, the Cabinet hoped to transfer the guilt to the men and women who actually committed the crimes. "The main problem," explained Justice Minister Horst Ehmke, "is freeing our people from its spiritual complex." Though the Germans had failed politically in the 1930s and '40s by allowing a "crew of murderers" to gain rule of the country, Ehmke argued, political failure should not imply national complicity in the crimes of the Nazis. "But," he warned, "this process of acquitting our people can only be successful when the murderers within our people are brought to justice...
There has been one big change, of course. Calkins has taken the trouble to explain the policies to students, even if the policies themselves are unchanged. For students who never really believed that the Corporation was a functioning cog in the military-industrial complex, Calkins' effort was enough...
...first argument in short order. The figures Brennan cites are highly suspect on technological grounds, and he admits they are applicable only "assuming that the Soviets do not make a major increase in their offensive forces in response to our improved defense." The ABM would be the most incredibly complex electronic-mechanical system ever built, with all the fallability such complexity implies. The ABM's reliability could never be tested under conditions approximating those of a nuclear attack, simply because there is no way of simulating all the conditions of a nuclear attack. For example, a radar system control...
Jubilee Weekends always start in the middle of February. First there is a poll of everybody in the Union to decide who The Group will be this year. Then through some enormously complex method of voting in which everyone tries to stuff the ballot box, they come out with a top three. And usually the combined vote for this top three totals about 200 more than the number of freshmen in the class...
...current plans to evict tenants or demolish" the University Road apartment building, at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Construction of the Kennedy Library complex might lead Harvard to "consider altering the use of the site," the statement said. But such acion is at least four or five years away, it said, and the "effect upon the tenants will be carefully studied . . . before any action is taken...