Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condition of the homeless is appalling, solutions can seem hopelessly complex. Offering the medical treatment necessary for a derelict alcoholic is different from providing job training and education for a welfare mother, counseling for a teenage runaway or more income for a worker trying to secure an apartment. Yet no matter what their other difficulties, the homeless share a simple problem: they need a place to live. The best response to homelessness is to build more housing. This wealthy nation should start with a basic policy: no American should have to sleep on the street...
...could be rented cheaply, the Dansk kitchenware firm opened a factory outlet, hoping to capitalize on the fur company's cachet. By 1982, Bloom, 63, a New Jersey accountant who had wandered into real estate, had transformed a cluster of artisans' shops in Flemington into an 88-store outlet complex called Liberty Village. Much of the success, he says, is that "in outlets, you know you're getting the real brand-name merchandise...
...after all, I was in my 20s and full of combative spirit -- I was defending a much more serious approach." She did not declare that art has no moral purpose, she sighs. Her point was merely that art and morality are not the same thing, that their interactions are complex. As for equating high and popular culture, she explains, "I made a few jolly references to things in popular culture that I enjoyed. I said, for instance, one could enjoy both Jasper Johns and the Supremes. It isn't as if I wrote an essay on the Supremes...
Politically Sontag describes herself as a social democrat. But in the 1960s, amid the revulsion aroused by the Viet Nam War, she traveled to Havana and Hanoi and wrote about both places sympathetically, though not without misgivings. Read today, the mismatch in those essays between her complex inquiries and the nostrums of Communism is palpable. Her lingering reputation as a leftist, however, explains the fire storm she set off with a brief speech six years ago at a New York City forum to voice support for Poland's Solidarity labor union. Though the session had been organized by a coalition...
...investigation, the largest and most complex yet into money laundering, was called Operation C-Chase for the $100 bills (C-notes) that are the denomination of choice in major drug deals. While previous probes had netted mostly low-level operatives, C-Chase bagged far bigger suspects. The arrests were based on indictments handed up by federal grand juries in Tampa and other cities. The indictments named some 80 defendants and the first banking company ever charged in the U.S. with money laundering: the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the seventh largest privately held financial institution...