Word: complex
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Gore is well known for his appetite for cold-blooded analysis, whether of an opponent or a proposal. "He has a penchant for issues that are complex and intellectual, as opposed to emotional and ideological," explains a former aide. "With Gore, the question isn't, What do I believe? It's, What do I know?" Although much has been made of Bush's crash course in policy early last year, when the best minds in the party came down to Austin, Texas, to help school him on everything from China policy to the complexities of the earned-income tax credit...
...Neil Sinhababu '01, co-director of the Cambridge World Fund, agrees. "You could never make a video game as complex as trading," he says. "In trading, there's this wonderful cowboy thing to it." Both love the game of trading. But, after his freshman year Liu grabbed his next three years of tuition money--some $90,000 bucks-saddled up his horse ready to lasso in the loot...
According to a report in the Boston Globe, Nicholas J. Saunders '99, Eli W. Bolotin '99 and Basil el-Baz '97 last week purchased the M-80 and Paradise nightclubs on Commonwealth Ave., a day before the complex was shut down for violations of city liquor regulations...
...current account deficit may be too complex to become an election issue, but if it continues its current surge it could become the economic cloud that rains heavily on the next presidency. The problem is partly a product of the new pattern of U.S. manufacturing: Some 40 percent of U.S. imports are goods manufactured overseas by U.S. corporations. "The best hope for relief is that Japan, China and other Asian governments manage to revive their economies and drop remaining trade barriers so that they buy more goods and services from the U.S.," says Baumohl. But while America waits and hopes...
...many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly saw its $484 million investment in Russian oil giant Sidanko all but disappear in a maze of Russian corporate shenanigans. In a complex scheme with a brutishly simple result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary was declared bankrupt and sold for a song to a rival, the Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK). BP Amoco vehemently objected and in late December reached a tentative settlement with TNK. But the Sidanko affair is still cited in expatriate business circles...