Word: unravelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swiss moneymen reacted with scarcely concealed delight when the Basel subsidiary of the United California Bank suspended operations, a victim of the costliest banking scandal in Swiss history. The losses of the U.S. affiliate so far have been estimated at $40 million. But as state-appointed auditors worked to unravel the tangled affair last week, there was every possibility that the deficit could grow even larger...
...jolts of violent entertainment. The plot is the usual thing: Private Detective Travis McGee* (Rod Taylor) rescues lady-in-distress (Suzy Kendall); their affair is pleasant enough, but she skips out on him and is murdered; McGee seeks revenge on the killers. There is no absurd jigsaw plot to unravel. Stories-and movies-like this rely mostly on atmosphere and characterization, two elements in reasonably plentiful supply in Darker Than Amber. Rod Taylor plays McGee as something a little bit more than the usual ham-fisted hero...
...water. By making cost-benefit choices?for example, between new plants and old marshes ?they could balance the system. But this is a far-off dream. Far more knowledge is needed about how ecosystems work. Even the simplest is so complex that the largest computer cannot fully unravel...
...pillars of the flourishing German scientific community. A brilliant teacher, he attracted many of the great names of the atomic era-Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi-to Göttingen's lecture halls and laboratories. Equally communicative outside the university, he produced a flood of books and essays to unravel the complex new physics for an uncomprehending public. But Born, who died in Göttingen last week at the age of 87, is perhaps best remembered as one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics-a basic mathematical tool for probing the atom...
...ground rules for the inquest beforehand. He will probably call the eleven guests from the cookout first and then the local witnesses. Attorneys Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, the two men other than Kennedy who know the most about what happened on the night of the accident, might unravel some of the contradictions: When did the accident occur? How did Kennedy return to Edgartown? Why wasn't the accident reported immediately? Kennedy, who prepared for his ordeal with a skiing vacation in Colorado, will be his own most important witness...