Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of AIDS, could prove fatal. Says Dr. Michael Cairns of the Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C.: "You can't arbitrarily expose a group of people to a virus to see if the vaccine is protective." Moreover, the behavior of the AIDS virus is so complex and unpredictable that a vaccine based on a derivative of the virus could itself be dangerous...
...very sin he inveighed against -- government." The same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative; he is merely its most ardent spokesman. Surely the scientists and military executives who think SDI feasible cannot...
...industrial zone just outside the capital city, joint ventures between Spanish and foreign firms are mushrooming. Perhaps the most impressive project is a $200 million plant being built by a partnership of AT&T and Spain's Telefonica. The factory will soon begin producing 3,000 highly complex custom-made electronic microchips a week for export. AT&T was lured in part by the Spanish government's aid, which included a $74 million cash subsidy, a $75 million loan and 400 acres of land...
...university president and medical administrator. The death revelation, however, was certainly the oddest of the messages from on high that Roberts has reported since he launched his $250 million City of Faith Medical and Research Center in 1977. The first revelation was God's command to build the lavish complex, detailing such matters as a design with three towers of 20, 30 and 60 stories. In the next astonishing disclosure, Jesus appeared, standing "some 900 feet tall," and directed Roberts to persevere. As the need for money mounted, God ordered Roberts to require $240 from each supporter, promising "breakthroughs...
Aides to the evangelist denied that Roberts' sensational new appeal indicated financial problems in his spiritual empire. The ultramodern buildings of the 4,650-student university and adjacent medical complex are largely debt free, but obtaining enough income to keep the enterprises operating has proved difficult. The Tulsa Tribune reported last year that the voracious money demands of the hospital, clinic and research center were nearly twice Roberts' projections in the first year and continue to strip the university endowment and squeeze faculty income...