Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system of justice is a huge and complex machine. Delicately balanced by counterweights, equipped with elaborate filters and safety valves, it is designed to sort the guilty from the innocent, restore rights, redress wrongs. In short, to do justice...
Here in Baltimore, the man you describe as having a Napoleonic complex is known as the Wizard of 33rd Street, and that Earl Weaver is [July 23]! Once you catch his "Oriole fever," there's no getting...
...Carter did call, but discovered that the telephone tolls were tied up in a complex court action beyond his influence.) To a resident worried about environmental damage from increased coal production, Carter conceded that many people fear that "coal is dirty and will lower the quality of our life." But, the President insisted, "that is not true" and "we can burn twice as much coal in this nation and not lower our environmental standards at all . . . that's what I'm determined to do." He did not, however, discuss the difficult economics of preventing pollution...
...Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's operator, and being shown daily at the Observation Center across the river from Three Mile Island's cooling towers, the script has a glib explanation for last March's near disaster. It resulted, says the Met Ed film, from "a complex combination of equipment failures, ambiguous instruments and operator failures . . ." The production also insists that the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere was insignificant...
Other islands date their history to more recent times. Long Island was a huge tuberculosis hospital, its 1200 beds once full. The market for its service has decreased, but parts of the hospital complex still are in use. Deer Island is famous for another institution--The Deer Island House of Correction. It's not exactly Alcatraz, but there could be worse locations from any viewpoint. Bird Island? Well, it's not there anymore. In its place is Logan Airport...