Word: maze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost all such work reflects the complexity of modern society-the problems of big business, of big unions, of big government, with its high taxes and its maze of regulations. Lawyers must make sure not only that a contract is foolproof and foulproof, but also that the deal in question clears with the federal regulatory agencies, the Justice Department and the Treasury...
Efficiency v. Elegance. To keep pace with a London-based staff that grew from 75 to 2,262 in its 96 years, the Foreign Office desperately divided and subdivided its ornate acreage. Today it is a dim maze of minute, plywood cubbyholes linked by mosaic-floored corridors and a warren of back stairs. Many of the garrets have no windows, or only a piece of one, and most of the windows cannot be opened anyway. Even the mouse-ridden attics have been carved into typists' collectives and digs for bachelor-duty officers...
...unbending patriarch of Baltimore, and acutely conscious of the dignity and the responsibilities of venerable old age. Like a wise old uncle exercising his seniority, it tells Baltimoreans what to do, and Baltimoreans apparently listen. Faced with a perplexing maze of 20 municipal bond issues in a 1962 election, most voters clipped a Sun editorial, took it to the polls, and followed the paper's recommendations to the letter. The Sun demands a high order of intelligence from its readers. Stories are written not to entertain but to inform; text is never displaced for purely cosmetic considerations...
...asylum. Four years later, itinerant Artist Kerwin Mathews happens along, promptly falls in love with Wife-Stepmother Nadia Gray and agrees to help her husband escape. What happens next? Just about everything, most of it unexpected, non-formula, and deftly contrived to lead the audience into a maze of wrong assumptions...
...building the Nimba facilities. The U.S.'s Raymond International Inc. laid the 167-mile railroad from Nimba to Buchanan and built a seaport there from breakwater up. The Netherlands' Phillips installed an electronic rail-traffic control system; Krupp made the ore-handling equipment. Aided by a maze of conveyor belts and closed-circuit TV control panels, LAMCO can load ore into a ship in less than nine hours after it has been mined. At the foot of Mount Nimba has grown up Liberia's third largest community, where most of the company's 470 foreign staff...