Word: complexity
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...Gamini Dissanayake, a senior minister in President Jayewardene's government, the peace agreement merely "amounts to a recognition that we are living next door to a very powerful and complex country." The pact must still be ratified by Sri Lanka's Parliament, currently in recess. Dissanayake predicts that Jayewardene's majority United National Party will support the pact. Just to be sure, the canny President was said to be considering a delay in the recall of Parliament until at least mid-September. That would allow inflamed passions on the balmy island to cool further, and thereby give peace, Sri Lankan...
RETIRING. Roger L. Stevens, 77, indefatigable chairman and guiding light of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a position he has held since 1961; in Washington. Stevens, a former real estate magnate and Broadway producer (Bus Stop), shepherded the actual complex into being in 1971. His successor: Ralph P. Davidson, 59, who steps down next year as chairman of the executive committee of Time Inc., and takes up Stevens' duties on July...
...dramatic protest against the incarceration crisis, the sheriff of Pulaski County, Ark., last week chained 50 prisoners, including 13 women, to trees outside the state prison at Pine Bluff because authorities said there was no room inside. Embarrassed officials quickly found space in the 696-bed complex, which is now officially operating at full capacity...
...committee source, speaking only on conditionof not being named, said the cost of thehearings--excluding such expenses as security,utilities and remodeling of office space in theCapitol complex--would probably reach $3 millionto $4 million by the time the panels' work iscompleted
...subordinates while Robertson campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.) His ministry's activities earn some $183 million annually. In Tulsa, Oral Roberts, 69, a member of the United Methodist Church but Pentecostal in style, oversees daily and weekly television shows and presides over a $500 million complex, including the 4,650-student Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Hospital. Annual budget: some $120 million. Robert Schuller, 60, who was ordained by the Reformed Church in America, broadcasts his syndicated weekly Hour of Power shows from the $20 million Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., and takes in some...