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Word: complexes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Have a well-articulated world view, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as a professor and later Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser dealt with four Secretaries of State: "The Secretary must have the ability to integrate very complex and varied trends into patterns worldwide so that the U.S. can have definite priorities and be able to define its objectives clearly." Other experts like Hoffmann feel that the Secretary must not become prisoner of a rigid view to which he tries to make every world event conform. But unless the foreign policy chief can relate events in one part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Welcome to an Impossible Job | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...women's history and of human rights in general have engendered a series of "problem books" that confuse as often as they enlighten. Lower reading scores have been reported in grade schools throughout the country. And although specialists regard children's literature as a rich and complex genre, its artists and writers are too frequently appraised by critics as a species of emotional retards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lively, Profitable World of Kid Lit | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...other demands, namely a U.S. pledge of noninterference in Iranian affairs and the unfreezing of $13 billion in U.S.-held Iranian assets. In its response to Iran's remaining demand, that all American claims against the Tehran government be canceled, the White House tried to explain that complex legal obstacles might make this difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gambits in the Hostage Game | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...much wanted to be Lennon," says Stuart Berger, a New York forensic psychiatrist. "He slowly became delusional and incorporated Lennon into his sense of self. The only obstacle that stood in the way of his becoming Lennon was Lennon." Now, as he sits in detention at Rikers Island prison complex in the East River, he must face the awful reality of being Mark David Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Lethal Delusion | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...conditioning system during the daytime. Jobs that require work at unusual hours will be concentrated in an adjoining three-story building so that the taller structure is not heated or cooled unnecessarily. In all, Georgia Power expects these conservation techniques to cut energy bills for the complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Pinching Power | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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