Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to go to the Classics departmentlibrary and look at the volumes and say gee isthat all there is, but when I want to deal withit, it is very different. The level of detail isso complex it boggles the mind," says Crane, whonever took an undergraduate course in computershere...
...fantastic nature of his activities. Those efforts were both macro and micro: he supervised the raising of millions of dollars in funds from South Korea and Taiwan while organizing numerous drops of munitions in Nicaragua. A hand-drawn chart that was found in North's office safe shows the complex path of money from private fund-raising organizations to various shadowy corporations. The chart suggests a link between two fund-raising organizations run by North's ally, Conservative Carl ("Spitz") Channell, and such corporations as Lake Resources, Udall and Trans World Arms, all of which have been connected...
...Reagan hold his staffers accountable for their actions. His management style, the commission acknowledged, "is to put the principal responsibility for policy review and implementation on the shoulders of his advisers. Nevertheless, with such a complex, high-risk operation and so much at stake, the President should have ensured that the NSC system did not fail him. He did not force his policy to undergo the most critical review of which the NSC participants and the process were capable...
...political ramifications that City leaders fear most of all. Though the affair involves complex financial transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...
...embodied 'self-made' virtues distinguishing the New World from the parent culture of Europe. As the dominant figurehead for Great Music, he furnished proof of New World high cultural achievement . . ." The quality of his interpretations was almost irrelevant; in Horowitz's view, Toscanini and the great American cultural inferiority complex were made for each other...