Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessmen lounged around the 350-seat, two-story formica and brass complex in their blue pinstripes, Downstairs, a string quartet churned out Bach, drowned out by the talk of loans and investment capital and the profit potential of breakfast that went on above...
...council voted 5-4 not to allow a vote on the permanent ban, proposed by councilor Raymond Flynn after a recent attempt by a Brighton landlord to evict tenants in a large apartment complex...
...letter writers go further and say that these racial "applications are the logical extension" of those sociobiological inquiries. That is not only simplistic and mechanistic, it distorts the multivalent nature of any complex theory such as E.O. Wilson's. Would one say that the genocidal policies of the Marxist Pol Pot regime "follow logically" form the writings of Karl Marx? Would one say that the Aryan superiority doctrine of the Nazis "followed logically" from the Superman statements of Neitzsche? Alain de Benoist, one of the espousers of the French "New Right" belief in genetic superiority, is also violently anti--Christian...
...Klutznick founded the Chicago-based Urban Investment and Development Co.; two years later the firm was sold to Aetna Life & Casualty for more than $52 million. His latest major project was Water Tower Place, a 74-story, $195 million showpiece on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue. The complex includes the 20-floor Ritz-Carlton hotel, 150 stores and 40 floors of high-priced condominiums. Klutznick and his wife Ethel occupy one of them near the top floor; he calls it living "over the store." They have four sons and a daughter, and twelve grandchildren...
...Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Yale, 1972). From the Puritans to the present, this book is a Lutheran historian's lucid, thorough survey of the progress of faith in a religiously complex nation...