Word: complexity
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After seven months as President, Bush has emerged as a much more complex Commander in Chief than expected, a hybrid of presidential personalities served and observed. Bush possesses Lyndon Johnson's penchant for secrecy, without retributive sense of justice. He has Richard Nixon's feel for foreign policy, but so far lacks his mentor's grip on grand strategy. He shares Jimmy Carter's fascination with the fine details of government, but understands better which pieces are most important. Bush says he learned from Reagan the importance of stubborn principle in politics, but he sees more clearly than Reagan...
...talked to the human beings who run the zoos, Willwerth was especially impressed by the dedication that curators feel to their quite modestly paid jobs. He was also drawn into the difficult issues of animal management. Says Willwerth: "Listening to complex discussions of gene pools, habitat destruction, medical problems, immersion landscapes and zoo politics is surprisingly compelling...
Drawing upon U.S. help and experience, local legal activists are turning to the courts to help crack open the complex system of racial discrimination...
...country will save some $12 billion in payments over the next four years on its foreign-bank loans; these represent $54 billion of its total debt. Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari hailed the agreement on television, declaring, "This is the culmination of one of the most difficult, complex and tense financial negotiations ever conducted in the history of our country...
...afford and plenty of free time to practice. Though bait fishermen scoff that snobs use flies as an excuse to keep worm and minnow goo off their hands, fly-fishermen approach the sport with an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch trout is a complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by nearly 500,000 fisherpeople...