Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clifford Stoll, a 38 year-old computer expert at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, broke the East European spy ring by setting up a complex monitoring system on his computer...
...issue is developer Graham Gund's plan's to construct a six-story complex of retail shops and offices at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Arrow St. While members of Gund's staff have said they are merely trying to construct a structure that will mix well architecturally with the neighborhood, residents have said the complex threatens the character of the neighborhood. And they have charged that the city's Planning Board has no jurisdiction over the the project, called Zero Arrow Street...
...offices stretching from Europe to Asia. In West Germany, where export-license rules have been hopelessly lax (but now, belatedly, are undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...
...challenge fittingly complex for a state-of-the-art public official who, at 45, is working for his fifth President and has served in six Cabinet departments. Darman has been a policy adviser, a crisis manager, an editor of Bush and Reagan speeches, a campaign strategist and, above all, a negotiator of intricate deals. The one he found "most exciting," he says, occurred when, as a young Justice Department official, he helped broker Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation. And the most significant? He names the 1986 economic-summit communique, improving policy coordination among the industrial democracies. Years hence...
...report also suggests that tests and curriculum be recast to make students analyze what they know rather than just repeat facts and rules. Without such changes, it says, U.S. graduates may soon be unable to compete with those from other countries for the world economy's increasingly complex jobs. "Recent improvements represent a significant national accomplishment," says Gregory Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administered the study for N.A.E.P. "But progress falls short of what the times require. Much more progress is needed for the economic development of our nation and the intellectual well-being of the next...