Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Brig. Gen. Robert M. Shoemaker, head of the allied task force of about 8800 Americans and 2000 South Vietnamese, declined to speculate whether the complex of over 500 buildings might be part of the disperse enemy headquarters...
Americans are searching for an underground, multi-story complex which they believe is the central Vietcong command headquarters and is situated in this area...
...officer corps is itself highly stratified. Generals are given cars and drivers as well as large apartments and summer dachas at nominal rents. While Grechko was Soviet Commander in East Germany, for example, he and his wife Klavdiya had a town house in East Berlin and a secluded complex of five villas in the East Berlin suburb of Wünsdorf, attended by a small army of Russian maids and orderlies. Now he owns a spacious dacha in the Moscow suburb of Arkhangelskoye. When his schedule permits, he also indulges his love for hunting with frequent trips to military duck...
...European securities markets, the publicly owned common stock in Corn feld's Geneva-based I.O.S., Ltd. has dropped as much as 50% in two weeks and shaken public confidence in Cornfeld's $2 billion mutual fund complex, whose shares are sold separately from those of I.O.S. itself. When I.O.S. shares were first offered to the public in Europe at $10 last fall, eager investors quickly bid the price to a peak...
...From Sea Shells. Most important, the company has drastically modernized its management. Royal Dutch/Shell has been one of the world's most complex organizations ever since 1907, when Marcus Samuel, the Briton who started out trading in sea shells and was one of the pioneers in the use of oil tankers, joined his "Shell" Transport & Trading Co. with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. Even today, Shell consists of those two parent companies, which through two holding companies own or control hundreds of firms round the world, including the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co.* For years Royal Dutch/Shell...