Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS MAY NOT SEEM so morally heinous, but in fact it is complex form of robbery. But even more important are its effects. Scenario: everybody breaks the rules of Wall Street...chaos ensues...capital is unavailable to allow companies to grow and function, leading to...Economic Breakdown! Well, this may be extreme, but if we decide to let one person get away with breaking the rules, what deterrent is there to stop others...
...teaching experiences in the last decade, Darman said his students "have seemed to lack grounding not only in government and the international environment, but also in Japanese or statistics or economics or any of the other basic skills that one would think relevant for modern management in a complex, government--prevaded, international environment...
Even as the tales of covert diplomacy continued to emanate from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head...
...published after his death under the title Daybooks, are full of aesthetic transports and sexual interludes. But they also show another side of his temperament, a no-nonsense sobriety that he called upon to achieve the condensed art of his mature years, when his aims were both clear and complex: "To photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock...
...railed against trading with terrorists, and who appears to sense that the public agrees with his position. In fact, the effort to free individuals in Lebanon at a possible extreme cost is perfectly consistent with the way Reagan has always conducted the presidency's business. In forests of complex issues, Reagan likes to point to the trees, to individuals. The suggestion is that individuals embody policies, that if one appreciates the situation or nature of a particular person, he will also understand general actions taken in that person's behalf...