Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...followed his legal lead on so many other bills. And he was opposed by a collection of liberal Northern Senators who might ordinarily be expected to share his constitutional conviction that the bill must be defeated. Opponents were hampered by a scant week's debate on the complex, 243-page bill. But the overriding factor deciding many key, usually liberal votes was the magnitude of Washington's crime problem and the scope of the issue's political ramifications in an election year...
Despite its seeming simplicity, the Jarring letter introduces some complex, intractable issues. Among them...
...B.A.S.F., an American subsidiary of a large German chemical company, has suspended plans to build a $200 million plastics and dye complex in poverty-stricken Beaufort County, S.C., until it determines just how expensive Government-ordered pollution controls will...
...drop in the birth rate. As to vigor, when the breakthrough comes in aging research, people in their 70s and 80s should have the energy of those in their 50s and 60s today. Ideally this would produce a greater number of selfless, highly educated wisemen who could undertake complex new projects for the benefit of mankind. But few believe that it would work this way. Most observers suggest that increased longevity would only magnify today's ambiguities and uncertainties if defining the role of the elderly...
From his base in Denver, King in the past decade has built a complex of companies that explore for and exploit a wide variety of natural resources. Among them are oil and natural gas in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere, diamonds in South Africa, copper in Peru and ilmenite in Australia. Now King's realm is besieged. Stock in his King Resources Co. has collapsed from a high of $34 last year to $4.87 bid last week. Corporate officials concede that they are short of cash and having a hard time paying bills. Creditors have been pushing to collect...