Word: complexity
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...economic and technological development in the 1990s and beyond. Breakthroughs are waiting to be made in fields that range from genetic engineering to particle physics, from automated manufacturing to space exploration. There is even a chance that scientists will use the new computers to understand better the most complex machine of all, the human mind...
...Kuwaitis own Santa Fe International, a leading oil-drilling company; the Atlanta Hilton hotel; and a controlling interest in the Dallas Galleria, a glittering complex of shops, offices and a hotel. The Kuwaitis are more visible in Europe. They own billions of dollars worth of British stocks, including 15% of the Royal Bank of Scotland and 5% of Trusthouse Forte, a leading hotel chain. On the Continent, Kuwait has invested more than $2 billion in Spanish companies. In West Germany, Kuwait owns 20% of Metallgesellschaft, a mining, metals and plastics company, and 14% of Daimler- Benz, the car manufacturer...
...than most computer programs I know to ensure that the needs and interests of Eliot residents are met most equitably in their rooming assignments. Edie spends her summer doing what a computer program attempts to do in a few minutes--match diverse groups of men and women to a complex labyrinth of rooms and potential suites--only Edie does a much better job. She, I am sure, would probably much prefer to spend the summer lounging in Eliot courtyard, but she sees the rooming assignments as something worth doing. And so do most Eliot House residents...
America's presidential-selection process is an accretion of reforms enacted over the years, each aimed at correcting the worst excesses of past elections and past presidencies. Bizarre and complex as it may be, the process may, paradoxically, be serving the country well. Certainly no system can guarantee the election of great Presidents. There is ample evidence in history that greatness is the product of chance, as much as any factor under any system. So far in the 1988 marathon, the process has performed suitably...
...Canal Area, as the former Canal Zone is called, since 1979. Panama now operates the railway that serves the facility, nearly all the canal watershed, and the ports of Balboa and Cristobal. U.S. officials in Panama give local workers high marks for their ability to handle complex engineering and piloting tasks. But under Noriega many high-level operational posts have been filled by inept cronies. The result has been mismanagement of the railway and poor road maintenance. Panama has imposed a dubious "lights and buoy" fee on ships approaching the canal, although the treaty prohibits such charges. At the rate...