Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this simple premise is difficult to execute. "To move kids from fatalism to industriousness," says Carrera, "the intervention needs to be complex and longstanding." After those initial months of intense scrutiny and understandable suspicion, Carrera managed to assemble 22 girls and boys, ranging in age from 13 to 16, and a smaller group of parents for courses on family life and sex education. "The kids are riddled with mythology about these things. There is a real need to inform," he says. Before long, the youngsters were not only learning but also receiving a range of support services from adults...
...Education. Employment. Their own bank accounts. Good health. Family involvement. Self-esteem. These are also contraceptives. It's the total fabric that is important." Carrera also teaches them how to play sports, like squash, that rely on individual discipline and control. "Whenever you posit a single solution to a complex problem, you are not as successful...
...revolution is a complex whole, like life itself, with the inspiring and the unacceptable, with hope and fear, violence and fraternity...
...past decade Marxist history has lost its sway as many French intellectuals grew disillusioned with East bloc totalitarianism. A revisionist school, influenced by nonpartisan British and American scholars, presents a more complex picture of the revolution: nobles seeking to weaken royal power played a driving role in the rebellion, for example; few peasants suffered under a feudal yoke. In the U.S. a much heralded new work by Harvard University's Simon Schama, called Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, depicts the ancien regime in a positive light -- not too differently from France's current best seller La Revolution...
Outzs said that many committee members did not really understand the complex issues involved with ROTC when they voted to send the resolution to the council...