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Word: complexity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Return, but the religious parties have a great deal more on their wish lists that troubles Labor. They seek to bring a far greater degree of religious observance to the largely secular state, and they want to ensure their hold on power by resisting any changes in the complex electoral laws that now favor them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Move to The Right | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...days there was the Graustein system--a complex formula dating from the 1940s used to determine the number of senior-level posts in each department. Everyone, it seemed, criticized it, and few fully understood...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Faculty Moves Away From Power Politics | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...tool that Spence has chosen for helping to implement his plan is one uniquely suited to the dean's background and management style. It is a quiet, behind-the-scenes set of changes that Spence hopes to effect, and it is perhaps simpler to build consensus around complex revisions in hiring formulas rather than a straightforward change in policy, professors...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Faculty Moves Away From Power Politics | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

Question 5 "simplifies a very complex situation," said Ellen L. Chubin, Harvard coordinator of Americans for Peace in the Middle East, an organization that has campaigned heavily against the referendum, "and that can only lead to more confusion on the issues...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Cambridge Votes Yes on 5 | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

...vote to keep the prevailing wage law, youvote no on the referendum, and to repeal it, youvote yes, Lemieux said. "It's complex over thetelephone. It has to be simplified." According toLemieux, since the prevailing wage, which involvesboth union and non-union workers, is tied to theunion wage, "it is not unreasonable to assume"that the one affects the other...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Question 2 Opponents Criticize Poll | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

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