Word: complex
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Brown says the complex nature and tenacity of sweatshop labor creates the need for a lengthy, methodical approach...
...slowed, including the decline of memory. The first step is to understand how memory works. Our head doesn't have a separate, identifiable system for remembering. A single memory is made of tiny pieces of information accumulated and stored over time. Those bits are held in a complex network of some 100 billion neurons, or nerve cells, that can make thousands of connections with other cells in the brain. Subsystems within the cortex handle specific things like names, sounds, textures, faces and smells. Say the word dog, and the busy brain fires up a host of images, sensory impressions...
...Bush hands about how much of this race is about that race, and most dismiss it out of hand, even though nearly all of them will admit to you that's why they are back in the fight. Only two or three will even talk about George W.'s complex motivation, and those who do choose their words carefully. "Look," says a Bush confidant, "somebody once said that to understand what moves a man, you have to understand the failures of his father. For 'W,' a pretty good piece of this is about 1992. How much? A pretty good piece...
...answer was to persuade Parliament to grant the company immunity from lawsuits by the Names--something the lawmakers might not do were they to get wind of the insurer's financial problems. And so, according to the London suit, Lloyd's duly set out to cook the books. The complex scheme allegedly involved closing the books prematurely on growing losses to conceal them...
...Although Mailer often appears reckless and on the cutting edge of society, most of his exploits appear to be vain attempts to attract attention or to escape an inferiority complex. He seems consumed by a constant drive to prove his masculinity and assert his sexuality. In addition, Dearborn details Mailer's substance abuse, from alcohol to marijuana to prescription pills. In addition, and some would say as a result, Mailer had trouble establishing positive relationships with women. He hardly endeared himself to feminists with lines like "I like to marry women whom I can beat once in a while...