Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard will begin construction this August of a two-building complex on the recently-acquired St. Paul's Church parking lot with a completion date set for spring, 1991, a University administrator said yesterday...
...that certain risks -- those that are up close, personal and capable of capturing the public imagination -- make regulatory decisions politically easy. But while all the fuss was being made over the slight possibility that some fresh fruit had been poisoned, hundreds of other perils -- less interesting, less photogenic, more complex and difficult to address -- were overlooked. Regulation that swoops down on the scare of the week keeps attention diverted from the problems individuals can do less about, like acid rain or the country's overflowing trash dumps...
...rather than through Moscow, and rewarding human- rights improvement with economic prizes like most-favored-nation trade status. But, says a Western diplomat in Vienna, "quite frankly, differentiation is a reactive policy, a cautious policy. It does not initiate and it is not crafted to take account of the complex issues that are now at stake...
Publicity and pressure, if responsible and consistent, can do much to illuminate a complex issue and to ease tensions in an old problem...
...much the same virtues: an inviting vulnerability, an approach to romance simultaneously fragile and fearless, a wit at once acerbic and diffident. While Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic?) has written mostly whiny and self-congratulatory cliches for the surrounding characters, she has given Heidi -- or Allen has found -- a complex, self-aware and poignant life...