Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most abundant in human milk, about 7% by volume; the average dairy cow's milk contains 5%. Although lactose is a rich and valuable nutrient, it cannot be metabolized directly by the human system; it must first be broken down by an enzyme called lactase from its original complex sugar form (disaccharide) to two simple sugars, glucose and galactose. Normal babies secrete lactase in abundance and thus have no difficulty in digesting mothers' milk, cows' milk or comparable substitutes...
Arab world. In a region not exactly noted for efficiency, the burly, 52-year-old Osman has achieved a reputation that would be enviable anywhere for completing complex projects on time and within cost estimates...
Bernard Cornfeld, former social worker and founder of the world's largest mutual fund complex, last week joined the army of the unemployed. Shareholders of his Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services, Ltd. gathered at the annual meeting in Toronto to elect a chairman and directors, and Cornfeld failed to attract enough votes for a seat on the board. The new chairman is Sir Eric Wyndham White, 57, who has acted in that role since Cornfeld was ousted as chief last...
Pifer's literary fancy is a ring of courtesans organized by a shadowy group of sinners to pry cashable secrets out of the military-industrial complex. His hero is a plausible young fastmouth, Tom Habba-kuk-named somewhat pretentiously after a 7th century B.C. minor prophet -who has been recruited to shill for the vestals, as the girls are called. He turns out to be very good...
...their new book, Scandal in the Assembly. The book appears to owe a considerable debt to a scholarly but not widely circulated 1967 work, Divorce and Remarriage, by a U.S. canonist, Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil. But it dwells more extensively on the individual injustices created by the incredibly complex code of canon law on marriage. Indeed, the authors charge that present Roman Catholic marriage laws are "bad laws, derogatory of hu man dignity and based on un-Christian concepts of the human person." Church marriage tribunals, they allege, fail "to dispense either natural justice or Christian charity...