Word: maze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only time will tell what the railroads can do to cut through the maze of Government and union rules (for example, laws that prohibit rail crews from working more than twelve hours a day even with overtime) that prevent the most efficient use of cars. A consortium of railroaders, union leaders, elevator operators and farm economists who met at the Grain Movement '73 Conference in Chicago last week placed most of the blame for the jam on the Federal Government for overloading the rails with the Russian grain. They think new laws are needed to modernize and better coordinate...
...mystery genre often seems an anachronism in twentieth century literature. We are not used to seeing all the pieces fit into place, all the ambiguities resolved, all the motivations defined. Even in such a vast, intertwining maze as Thomas Pynchon's new novel Gravity's Rainbow, we find dozens of false leads mixed among all the character recurrences and evolving relationships...
...casualty expenses only if they exceeded 5% of gross income. A blanket $500 miscellaneous deduction would be substituted. Form 1040 itself would be replaced by a new form 10405, on which a taxpayer could report income received from interest, rent and capital gains without having to fill out the maze of additional schedules now required...
...seems to me that one of the single biggest problems with medical care is the maze that must be navigated in order to gain access to it. A singular virtue of our health services, I think, is that it is small enough to be manageable, to make sense. That also means it is small enough to get to the bottom of something, small enough for one person to have an impact on it, small enough to change...
...Nowadays, it is probably easier to rely on totally irrelevant information and try to rationalize the need of an American withdrawal from Indochina. Miss Fitzgerald occupies however a special place among these U.S. "experts." She covers her total ignorance of the Vietnamese situation, past and present, through a maze of explanations ranging from an irrelevant psychoanalysis of the Vietnamese to the simple use of meaningless big words...