Word: complexity
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Even the Internal Revenue Service sometimes admits mistakes. Bowing to public indignation over the maddeningly complex W-4 form it introduced in November, the IRS last week unveiled a simpler version. The bewildering four pages of questions and instructions in the original have been reduced to two. Further minor changes are being discussed with the Office of Management and Budget, and the new form, called W-4A, is expected to be made final this week. Said IRS Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs: "We misjudged the willingness and capacity of many taxpayers to handle the additional complexity...
...weeks ago. Baker, whose comments were printed in last Sunday's Herald, told the editor that the President's memory had a short "half-life." Explained Baker last week: "As majority leader, I found that the President was as good as anybody in the give-and-take on complex issues, but that when you approached him about it two weeks or two months later, you found that the half-life of that memory was short. But so is mine. And so is yours, I suspect...
...first South Korean leader to leave office voluntarily, wants to convert the presidential system into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such a system would give Chun's Democratic Justice Party a stranglehold on power. That in turn would perpetuate the grip of Chun's strongest supporter, the 600,000-member armed forces, on the political life of the country...
...CURRENT housing system--implemented last year with the support of the Undergraduate Council--is more than just a drawn-out, complex, frustrating and anxiety-producing process. It betrays one of Harvard's most prized ideals--bringing students with different backgrounds together into tight-knit residential communities. By retaining a housing system that encourages us to live in self-sorted clusters with people of similar interests, character and outlook, we deny ourselves much of what Harvard is best able to offer...
...arrest warrant against Marcinkus could lead to a complex standoff between the Vatican and the Italian government. Italian officials cannot enter the Vatican to serve the arrest warrant, much less retrieve their man. Since the Lateran Treaty of 1929, Italy has recognized the 108.7-acre Vatican as a sovereign state. No extradition treaty, however, exists between the two. In 1982, shortly after the Italian Justice Ministry sent Marcinkus a "judicial warning" announcing that he and his two subordinates were under investigation, the Archbishop moved inside Vatican walls. Today he lives simply in a Vatican apartment...