Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again this spring -- a New York event became an issue of civic pride. By the time it finally got under way June 11, its goal was seen as mainly aesthetic. According to Founder Martin Segal, a financial consultant and chairman emeritus of the city's Lincoln Center cultural complex, the festival was to celebrate the attainments of the 20th century and thereby "prove that the times we were living in were not all that doleful...
...awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases, blew into the open, rattling Washington and the nation's military-industrial complex...
Then come the Navy's new SSN-21 attack submarine ($2.9 billion for just the first one ordered); the Army's proposed Forward Area Air Defense system, a complex of sensors, guns and missiles to provide air cover on the battlefront ($60 billion); and the bills for two more nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, approved by Congress last year ($20 billion with escort ships and airplanes). The Administration is also asking for upwards of $5 billion a year for the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...surefire success. While some women, including Thompson, Remington and Bartek, have received sympathetic hearings on such grounds and gone free, others have been sent to prison. Householder spent 22 months in jail; Comitz is now serving an eight-to-20-year sentence. Both women had told police complex kidnaping stories. Comitz had so completely convinced herself of the truth of her alibi that she passed two lie-detector tests. She revealed the truth only under hypnosis...
...earth science began in 1981, when scientists learned that planet-wide vibrations resulting from earthquakes deep within the earth are split into a complex system of overlapping "tones." The implication: there is something going on in the core that no one had previously suspected. Recalls John Woodhouse, a colleague of Dziewonski's at Harvard: "It was the beginning of a new wave of attention to the core...