Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board accepted a proposal by Brattle Square Associates to build a 30,000-square-foot retail-office complex at 12-14 Mifflin Place, the restaurant's current site...
...with their feet. Skaters jostle and bump around the perpetual curves of the 111-meter loop, and when one loses a jot of control, three are likely to careen across the water- slickened ice. But as Olympic spectators have seen, short-track racing is an intricate sport, replete with complex strategies. Since up to six skaters start at once, it has the drama of a pack of competitors struggling cheek to cheek -- battle like it oughta...
...media to try to collect damages for injury -- to their right of privacy, for instance, or their feelings -- when they cannot make the more difficult case for libel. But the court said last week that even when public figures claim emotional injury, they still must meet the complex "actual malice" standard devised for libel in the landmark 1964 decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. In that case, the court said that a public figure must show that a publication knew its statements were false or had recklessly disregarded the possibility that they might be. Shot through...
Having dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, Gromyko declares that "perhaps the most complex" discussion of his career was with John Kennedy at the White House during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "Not once in the whole course of the conversation did Kennedy raise the question of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba," Gromyko asserts. "Consequently, I did not have to answer whether or not there were such weapons in Cuba." Gromyko's favorite President is Roosevelt, but he also expresses admiration for Richard Nixon's studied pragmatism. Gromyko has little to say about...
...raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret doubts: would I ever be ready? Would I know when I was? The Navy's endless Tests were there to reassure me. I was passing, I was winning." Learning lessons, off duty as well as on, promises a path to maturity: how to find and then...