Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cubans seized 28 guards and staff members but released a few who complained of medical problems, said J.R. Johnson, warden of the complex, built in 1985 as a minimum-security holding center for illegal aliens. Johnson did not say how many people were released...
...unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher, and piloting the doughty vessel Military Industrial Complex across the briny reaches of Vineyard Sound...
...also specializes in a new field of research called Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), which involves concentrating large numbers of transistors on small silicon chips. More powerful chips mean computers can occupy less space, allowing advances like the installation of more complex systems in cars, and the replacement of racks of telephone wires with small chips...
...shore up the markets and keep the dollar from diving too far, the Administration must achieve two other goals of its complex strategy -- a major budget-deficit reduction and better economic-policy coordination with West Germany and Japan. On those two fronts came small but potentially significant victories last week. Congressional leaders and Administration officials reached an apparent breakthrough in their special deficit-cutting summit, in which they have been struggling for two weeks to compromise on a minimum of $23 billion in reductions. For the first time, Republican leaders came up with a proposal containing tax increases that President...
That, at least, is the theory. In practice, the mechanisms have been more complex and less effective. Since early 1985, the dollar has declined by about 50% against major currencies like the Japanese yen and the West German mark. Yet the U.S. trade deficit is as high as ever. Admittedly, it takes time for consumers and businesses to change their buying habits, and an improvement in the trade balance may be in the pipeline. But several forces are holding the deficit up. For one thing, foreign manufacturers have shown a dogged determination to hold down their U.S. prices to maintain...