Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...events of April 1969. Nonetheless, the CRIMSON said. " The Harvard Strike has a flaw: much of it is unreadable. Through a number of verbal and conceptual errors, the authors have smothered parts of their story in gooey, impenetrable prose. 'Boring' is too simple a term for the complex problems that plague the book, but readers may find the effect the same." Alumni with a truly unquenchable thirst for the facts about that April, however, are best off with this book...
Since World War II, the social sciences in the U. S. have been increasingly integrated into a growing institutional complex of universities, major foundations, private research institutes, and the government. This system is represented at Harvard by institutions such as the Center for International Affairs, and by men such as Robert Bowie, Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy, and Huntington. Such forms permit the utilization of the resources of academic communities for long-range policy planning. Many would also refuse employment with centers such as the Stanford Research Institute, Institute for Defense Analysis, and the Rand Corporation. Fewer would refuse to cooperate...
...where three hijacked airliners rested improbably, like a mirage of beached whales. The piracies represented an oddly terrifying juxtaposition of technology and barbarism, an almost science-fiction quality of civilization in a retrograde time machine, stranded abruptly in a desert waste. A handful of fanatics, equipped with nothing more complex than guns, dynamite and airline schedules, rendered some of the most advanced nations impotent to protect several hundred of their citizens (see THE WORLD). In one violent drama, the guerrillas frustrated the most sophisticated diplomacy and further endangered the already parlous chances for peace in the Middle East. After...
...Complex Procedures. Nerve surgery is frustratingly complex. Many nerve fibers are finer than sewing thread, have branchings that are difficult to locate and even harder to suture. The nerve fiber used in an autogenous graft is rarely more than two millimeters wide. Surgeons use a ten-power microscope, hair-thin sutures and exceedingly delicate instruments. The microscope magnifies the nerve enough to make it look as large as a piece of string...
...struggle by Investors Overseas Services to shore up its finances, the most puzzling phenomenon has been the proffered help of a little-known New Jersey manufacturer, International Controls Corp. It seemed odd that I.C.C. should be anxious to lend up to $15 million to the troubled mutual-fund complex despite opposition by I.O.S.'s temporarily ousted founder, Bernie Cornfeld. After all, European bankers from the Rothschilds on down had sidestepped urgent invitations to come to the rescue. Yet this week I.C.C. President Robert L. Vesco is due in Geneva to sign the loan papers. "Our motive is simple...