Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether animals that seldom make much noise themselves could respond to the arranged sounds that humans know as music. Cross, who happens to prefer Mozart himself, has an explanation of why the rats agreed with his musical tastes. Schoenberg, the father of serial music, wrote works of extraordinarily complex harmonies and rhythms; in behaviorist jargon, his music is dense with "information bits." Mozart used the traditional chromatic scale and a regular, readily identifiable beat. To a novice listener, and perhaps to a rat as well, Schoenberg may sound too cacophonic. Mozart might appeal to rats by the power of repetition...
...reason for the decline has been the Pentagon's increased emphasis on competition among defense suppliers. That-and the current controversy -stems from a buying system, introduced when Robert McNamara was Defense Secretary, called "total package procurement." Under "TPP," contractors must estimate total costs of a complex project years in advance, and they are supposed to keep quite close to that fixed-price target. TPP was designed to end the egregious overruns that had been fairly common under the older system of contracting for each step as it came along. This had encouraged contractors to make unrealistically low bids...
...third straight year, Watson assigned the freshmen according to a complex plan designed to send a fairly equal mix of students to each House. "Everyone seems pretty happy with the plan. It's the best from all standpoints," Watson said last week...
High on a plateau in the Middle Atlas Mountains stands a rambling complex of rough-hewn rock buildings. These days the buildings are quiet; overhead, crows caw and buzzards scream; grass creeps through chinks in the pavement. Only three soldiers, stationed there to prevent looting, are now camped where a community of Benedictine monks so recently thrived. The monastery of Toumliline, a hopeful experiment of Christian witness in Moslem Morocco, is closed, probably forever...
...March, Northwest revised its January proposal and offered a complex package of debentures, preferred stock and warrants, then worth about $75, for a share of Goodrich ($50). Keener, who dismissed what he called a "funny money" offer, had assembled a potent band of allies. For legal advice, he had White & Case, the Manhattan firm that masterminded American Broadcasting's successful defense against Howard Hughes last year. As investment bankers, he had First Boston Corp. To burnish Goodrich's image, Keener used three public relations firms, among them Hill & Knowlton, the world's biggest...