Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think he first knew for sure that he could handle the job when he was at Treasury," says Jamie Baker. "Before that, he had very successfully dealt with all manner of politicians at home. Then he prevailed in a complex negotiation with some very savvy foreigners in a field he knew not too much about. To relate it to basketball, I think that's when Dad, in his own mind, realized for certain that he could play above...
...theater enabled Stein to stage Verdi's last masterpiece as a kind of chamber work, with the stage action fast-moving and intricately choreographed. The closeness of the proceedings also gives added prominence to Richard Armstrong's intense and hard-driving conducting of what is perhaps Verdi's most complex orchestral score...
Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Elias J. Corey is known for his development of chemical pathways for the synthesis of more than 60 complex naturally occurring organic molecules, according to Harvard biographical material. He has published more than 660 scientific papers during the last 40 years...
...developer called the tune, and the council danced as fast as it knew how. The council, in a moment of befuddlement, adopted some easement deal amendments which it thought were harmless. But when the developer protested, the council entered into a complex rigamarole to excise those amendments...
...Soviets, the new system is nothing less than revolutionary. Instead of being presented with the name of a single party-approved candidate, voters will pick from a slate of several nominees. Moreover, the elections will be conducted by secret ballot. But because of the complex, overlapping rules, the route from nomination to election is difficult to understand and often seems open to manipulation. The new law makes nominating candidates so confusing that some sessions have degenerated into brawls as factions accused one another of exploiting the fuzzy regulations to rig the outcome...