Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if Kurt Waldheim is guilty of war crimes as alleged ((WORLD, July 6)), he deserves to be received by Pope John Paul II. Jesus loved sinners while detesting their sins. It is the Pope's job to represent this remarkable Jew in today's complex world. The Pope has extended his embrace to Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate him, to Yasser Arafat and to the Communist rulers in his native Poland. So should he embrace Waldheim...
Freedman's predecessor, McLaughlin, received mixed reviews during his five-year tenure. Although he spearheaded efforts to increase the college endowment, renovate older dorms, and build additional dormitories and a $17.5 million sports complex, McLaughlin has been criticized for his handling of campus activism...
...project is part of an effort to make the complex a tourist attraction. Under construction is a copper-roofed half-mile-long building in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright that will house executive offices. The tower will contain a 450-room hotel. Architect Gunnar Birkerts admits that he is prepared for "leaning tower of pizza" jokes...
North charged up Capitol Hill and took the forum away from the politicians. He played over the heads of the joint congressional committee, aiming his passionate rhetoric and complex charm at the 50 million people watching on television, the real audience and jury at the proceedings. The obscure, middle-level NSC staff member -- said to be a "loose cannon," an aberrant zealot from the White House basement -- did not behave like a guilty character caught at misdeeds, like a raccoon startled by a flashlight in the middle of the night...
...enrich the soil. The "bulldozer" effect of the pocket gophers and other small mammals should not be emphasized as or assumed to be the primary reason for the rapid soil development in the area. After the soils were buried by thick layers of pyroclastic flows and debris, complex physical and chemical processes began, aided mainly by the naturally produced acid rain resulting from gases emitted by the mountain. This has been the main cause of soil regeneration. The pocket-gopher theory, though appealing, is much too simplistic...