Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Klans of America arising from the 1981 murder of a black teenager by six U.K.A. members, the jury awarded damages of $7 million to the mother of Michael Donald, who was beaten, strangled and hung from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various Klan groups. More important, in the words of Klanwatch Director Bill Stanton, the verdict sets a "precedent to seek damages from the corporate Klan behind the perpetrators" of racial incidents...
...should not turn away from the task of seeking equity simply because the goals we seek require complex mechanisms. What's at stake is our image of ourselves. What should spur us on is the knowledge that 37 million of our neighbors don't have financial protection from the costs of illness. What should help mobilize us is the fact that if we fail to act, tomorrow or the next day or week or year you or I may be among those who help swell that number...
...major limitation is that all materials must be used within the OIT complex. With a standard ID card, students can borrow material from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (library hours), although arrangements can be made to use the software until...
...thereby win an advantage in the ongoing power struggle. The easiest way to handle the problem, it is felt, is to make sure that nobody else makes any deal and that the prevailing chaos continues. Like the hostages in Lebanon, Seib was simply a pawn in a complex power game that is far from being resolved...
...would not want to fight there: "I'm ready to die for my homeland; I'm not ready to die for others." Donahue, meanwhile, acted as defender of the American system without jingoistic excess. When one youth claimed that all U.S. policy is dictated by the "military-industrial complex," Donahue shot back, "You have just as narrow a vision of us, if you hold that view, as you accuse us of having about...