Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business courses that involve more number-crunching than subjective policy decisions, enthusiasm for the case method begins to fade. Professors outside the B-School say that studying topics such as accounting and corporate finance requires an understanding of basic principles before exploring complex scenarios, adding that using case studies from the start allows for only a superficial treatment of the subject...
...members had to sell tomatoes door to door to pay for the hall. Today the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., is the second largest Protestant congregation in America. During weekend services nearly 12,000 people regularly cram into its $15 million, 4,650-seat auditorium and complex. At a time when the mainstream Protestant denominations are rapidly losing members, Willow Creek's popular success and stripped-down theology are challenging traditional notions about presenting the Christian message...
...study Hybels' methods. Already dozens of copycat congregations have begun popping up around the country. One of them, founded by pastor Jim Nicodem in a shopping mall theater in nearby St. Charles four years ago, has just launched a $2.5 million fund-raising drive for a new church complex dedicated to "presenting ageless truths in a contemporary fashion." There could be no better tribute to Hybels' vision -- or his marketing savvy...
...decade ago, such a surge of rhythm could only have been achieved with complex, pricey and cumbersome equipment. Today any garage band can sound as big and as studio-slick as Fleetwood Mac, if only the young musicians stick with it. "People get these keyboards at home and use them for a while, then put them in a closet," Flores frets. "With 15 minutes of practice daily, you can learn to play any instrument. You cannot get away from education." Parents who want the family prodigy to put in more than 15 minutes on the upright are concerned that serious...
...contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination -- is now being treated as if it were a heretic's pamphlet; The Satanic Verses has been turned from a book into a talking point. With the drama bringing more and more readers to a novel that most readers will find almost impossible to unravel...