Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the problems with which Ackermann tries to deal are too complex to be neat little dictums. One of the book's major themes is the escalation of violence in the city during the 1970s, beginning with the takeover of University Hall in April...
...midst of the explosion of information, knowledge and complex challenges facing us, the American university cannot afford the luxury of transforming its first two years of instruction to meet the woeful inadequacies of our public school system. We cannot afford to relegate 50% of the university's time and resources to remedial work . . . The universities in two years cannot do justice to twelve years of neglect in learning. We are our high schools' keepers. The nation must take preventive measures to reform, strengthen and in some instances rescue our high school system...
Patrick and Jenny Standish have just moved into a modern apartment complex south of the Thames in London (faithful Amis readers will recall the courtship of these two as recorded 29 years ago in Take a Girl Like You). Patrick has stopped being a Latin teacher and now works as an editor at a publishing house. After nearly eight years of marriage, he is proving no match for the temptations of swinging London in the '60s. His difficulties with girls involve an inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm...
Behind every successful drug syndicate lies a complex mechanism for recycling bundles of tainted cash into respectable assets. But until two years ago, when Los Angeles narcotics officers seized three Zurich-bound suitcases stuffed with $2 million in currency, there was little hard evidence to implicate the venerable granite-walled banks of Switzerland in such schemes. Since then Swiss banks have been chastened by the disclosure that their accounts were used in a billion-dollar money-laundering operation. The resulting political scandal, in which the Justice Minister was forced to resign, ranks as the worst in modern Swiss history...
...computers have been so popular is that they use an industrial-strength operating system called Unix. First developed by AT&T, . Unix enables computers to do several jobs at once and allows a network of machines to share information and computing power. While Unix systems are generally too complex for casual users to operate, Sun's newer models are designed to be friendlier to novices. The SPARCstation 1 begins to bridge the gap between workstations and personal computers...