Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with expertise in all three fields. Senior Writer George Church relied on his 24 years' experience as a business journalist to untangle the economics of the health care system, an industry that employs more than 3 million people. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, a veteran political analyst, examined the complex issues and divergent proposals behind the health care debate in Congress. Anastasia Toufexis, a reporter for a physicians' newspaper before joining TIME as a Medicine section writer last year, described the intricacies of CAT scanners, coronary bypass surgery and other medical innovations that are as expensive as they...
...SALT confronts a journalist with two challenges," says Talbott: "Understanding the complex, secrecy-shrouded subject and writing about it so that readers can grasp it." Talbott undertook the first challenge armed with the discipline of a Rhodes scholar at Oxford (B. Litt., 1971). "I put myself through a crash course in the exotic hardware, the numerology offeree levels and the foreign language of arms-control acronyms," he explains. As a student of Russian literature, the translator and editor of two volumes of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs (1970 and 1974) and an observer of statecraft, Talbott knew three essential SALT...
...tiresome Mo (Theresa Russell) seems considerably less complex than the title characters of Laverne and Shirley. Nonetheless, Greenberg siphons all of Watergate through this couple, and, worse still, he dramatizes the banalities of their domestic life. John's premarital flings with other women (including a French floozy who seems to have stepped out of Irma La Douce) get more screen time than the Ervin hearings. The Deans' bouts with alcohol are presented with the florid excess of an old Hollywood weeper like /'// Cry Tomorrow...
This sex strategy has been touted as a promising approach in pest control. But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge. For Dutch Entomologist CJ. Persoons, the breakthrough came with new techniques for separating chemicals...
...mathematics is impeccable; the trouble begins only when he applies the theory to phenomena outside the realm of pure mathematics. It turns out that most of the elementary structures are not quite so elementary: although the simplest of these, the "fold" catastrophe, may be depicted by a parabola, the complex "parabolic umbilic" model cannot be represented in fewer than six dimensions. In addition, some of the structures have such a narrow range of stable states that they are practically useless as real-life models...