Word: complex
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Doubtless the problems the U.S. faces are more complex today than the founders faced. But the language also seems to increase in complexity, density and bureaucratese...
Baffling Defense. As the players get bigger and the game becomes ever more complex, it should have been no surprise that the biggest and most complex team of all would eventually win the Super Bowl. The Chiefs' defensive front four, led by 270-lb. Aaron Brown, is the heaviest in football; their line backers are a muscular trio of marauders. Along with all that muscle goes Coach Stram's baffling, shifting "triple stack" defense. "With our wide variety of alignments," says Coach Stram, "we create a recognition problem for the offense. Any time we can make a team...
...Hilton Head. Last summer, the American subsidiary of Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, West Germany's giant chemical company, quietly bought up 1,800 acres on the mainland near Beaufort, less than four miles away, and announced that it was going to build a $200 million petrochemical complex. It will be South Carolina's largest single industrial development. It also promises to be a big source of pollution...
Moreover, an atmosphere of coercion and disruption adversely affects the University in ways other than by impeding its normal activities. The University has faced, and will continue to face, many important issues concerning its relationship to the community and to society. Many of these issues are extremely complex, and insofar as it is impossible for the University to resolve these issues, such resolutions can be accomplished only through a mutual cooperation and discussion. Issues and problems are not discoverable, in an atmosphere of turmoil. Quite apart from the difficulty of exploring questions under such circumstances, the inevitable effect...
...their work as teachers and scholars, and, we think it fair to surmise, distracted for a considerably longer period. This cost, it should be emphasized, was imposed, so far as we can determine, without any appreciable enlightenment of these Faculty members or any particular clarification for them of the complex questions of minority hiring at Harvard...