Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million sq. ft. of office space to Montreal's thriving real estate market. Other construction -- apartments, condominiums, new hotels -- is altering the Montreal skyline so fast that photographs taken only a year ago are already outdated. In Quebec City the building of a new downtown convention center and hotel complex has left the old historic quarter essentially unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow, hilly streets, dominated by two landmarks -- the venerable, copper-turreted Chateau Frontenac hotel and the ornate 19th century building that...
...fantastic. It carries a huge set of instruments. They did it with Venus. Now they have focused on Mars, and it is to be expected that they will be equally successful." In fact, each of the probes will carry 25 instruments -- an enormous number, considering that the U.S.'s complex, much delayed Galileo probe to Jupiter has only...
Church and state enjoy, at the best of times, a somewhat uneasy balance of power. In Communist Europe, where a fierce sense of religious tradition coexists with a firm sense of political exigency, the mighty opposites struggle within an especially complex marriage of convenience. The frictions between their competing claims are felt most urgently perhaps by the powers at the head of the church. Divided loyalties become a double cross to bear...
What would be a sufficiently frightening financial event to trigger such a crash? No one knows precisely. Panics are based largely on mass emotion rather than analysis, and the global economy has become so complex that economists cannot predict with certainty what combination of stresses and strains is required to produce a chain reaction. For example, no particular dollar figure for U.S. indebtedness will suddenly trigger alarm bells. Says David Colander, an economics professor at Middlebury College: "Our $8 trillion debt is almost an irrelevant figure. Technically this economy could support a $30 trillion debt as long as the people...
...each character looks back at Theo and searches for clues to explain his fate, a complex portrait slowly emerges, not only of a troubled young man but of an entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing...