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...about 100 to 1 at the time of independence from Britain 16 years ago. A strict "leadership code" bars most civil servants from drawing more than one salary, owning rent-producing property, or riding around in limousines. Nyerere's own life-style must surely be one of the simplest of any chief of state; he is paid only $6,000 annually, and lives in a very modest beach house outside Dar es Salaam...
...simplest and most common combination of the gates is the half-adder, which is designed to add two Is, a 1 and a 0, or two 0s (see diagram). If other half-adders are linked to the circuit, producing a series of what computer designers call full adders, the additions can be carried over to other columns for tallying up ever higher numbers. Indeed, by using only addition, the computer can perform the three other arithmetic functions. Multiplication is often accomplished by repeated additions, division by repeated subtractions. Subtraction, on the other hand, can be done by an old trick...
Private banks and insurance companies have been trying to please customers by writing loan agreements and policy forms in high school-level English. In Massachusetts, State Representative Lois Pines last year pushed through a bill requiring insurance companies to limit their policies to the simplest and clearest language. The state of Michigan now has an "understandable-language bill" under consideration. New York Governor Hugh Carey has signed a bill, to go into effect this spring, providing $50 fines for failure to use "nontechnical language" in consumer contracts...
Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem, and all that has followed from it, suggests again the ingenuity with which some men and women have approached the seemingly insoluble problem, the historical impossibility. Old impregnable conundrums usually fall to the simplest, most elegant assaults. Alexander's sword at one stroke solved all the mystification of the Gordian knot. Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants-military genius riding through the snow upon absurdity. Gandhi defeated the British raj with a contradiction: nonviolent resistance. In 1955 a weary black woman in Montgomery. Ala., Rosa Parks, refused to surrender her seat...
...store affiliate, the Star Market chain in the Boston area, now offers as many as 88 no-brand products ranging from flour to laundry detergent. To keep prices at rock bottom, Jewel and Star will spend nothing on advertising or promoting the no-brand goods. They also use the simplest packaging (no cellophane windows or four-color lithographs on boxes) and limit variety and size (generally the packages are fairly large...