Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE affair of the Saudi Arabian tanks is a ludicrous but damaging example of what can happen in a big and complicated government when it is not clearly led and firmly administered from the top. For months, this government has been faced with the dangerous problem of arms shipments to...
One of the areas where M.I.T. research has been most successful has been in the development of digital computers and other instrumentation devices. War-time discoveries in circuit theories led to the development of increasingly complicated calculators. Recent research includes work on a machine that will translate languages and turn...
As machines get more complicated, quick-acting and violent, they are more prone to self-destruction if something goes wrong. Some nuclear reactors, for instance, can turn into radioactive junk in a fraction of a second. To avoid such misadventures, most modern mechanical and electronic systems are equipped with built...
He warned that a continuing supply of college graduates was needed to operate the country's vast and complicated technological systems. He stated that the universities were the recruiters and suppliers of trained personnel for business and therefore contributions should be considered as investments in "one of the most important...
Moving as if her leg had never been hurt, Tenley whirled through her complicated routine. Axels, splits, cross-foot spins were all combined in a daring dance. Only once did her bad ankle seem to buckle, but she recovered quickly. Judges gave her an almost perfect score.