Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Councilors Alice K. Wolf and Saundra Graham voted against the resolution; Francis H. Duehay '55 abstained, saying that "I'm not involved in this very complex, political issue." David E. Sullivan, who serves as chief counsel to the Massachusetts Secretary of State, abstained to avoid a conflict of interest, as he does on all state-related issues...
...weapons network, which had long been overseen by the now defunct Atomic Energy Commission, and finally < seems bent on reform. Information about the weapons-production system has emerged that only begins to suggest the past callousness of both Government officials and private contractors. At the sprawling Hanford plutonium- processing complex in Washington State, managers once deliberately released 5,050 curies of radioactive iodine into the air. The reason: to see if they could reduce the amount of time uranium must be cooled before being processed into plutonium, presumably to increase production...
...four biggest weapons plants in the U.S. have now been shut down. They are the pioneering Hanford facility in Washington, where eight reactors have been deactivated and the remaining one is on indefinite standby; the Savannah River complex, where all three operational reactors are down, knocking out the only means of producing tritium, a hydrogen isotope that boosts the explosive power of nearly all the 22,000 U.S. nuclear warheads; the plutonium-processing plant at Rocky Flats near Boulder, Colo.; and the deceptively named Feed Materials Production Center, in Fernald, Ohio, where some workers are striking for higher wages...
...that the U.S. had come close to meeting Manila's minimum demands in a "creative" three-part package that consists of $481 million a year in cash and direct assistance, as well as $355 million in "soft" loans and financial guarantees. The beauty part, according to Manglapus, is a complex arrangement that may amount to as much as $900 million a year in debt relief for the Philippines, which owes foreign creditors $29 billion. Nevertheless, critics in the Philippines charged that the government of President Corazon Aquino had settled too cheaply...
Soon a more complex laundering method was introduced. BCCI allegedly began to wire drug money deposited in its branches to accounts in foreign banks, using major New York City institutions as unwitting intermediaries. Once the funds were overseas, BCCI allegedly used them to buy certificates of deposit at banks in France, Britain, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Panama and the Bahamas. Using the CDs as collateral, BCCI then issued phony loans for slightly smaller amounts to the agents' Panamanian account. Once again, the agents gave the Colombians signed blank checks drawn against the account. BCCI collected the CDs as "payment" for the loans...