Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meantime, the SALT II draft that was signed by Carter and Brezhnev last June in Vienna was slowly wending its way through the Senate's complex ratification machinery. The Foreign Relations Committee's nine Democrats and six Republicans last week continued ''marking up''-going over line by line-the proposed resolution of ratification. During the ''mark-up,'' amendments can be introduced and voted upon by committee members. Among the most notable offered last week were several by Minority Leader Howard Baker that dealt with the Soviet monopoly on large-scale...
...scholars across the land. One finding: after ten years at the helm of the nation 's highest tribunal, Burger has yet to demonstrate the intellectual or personal persuasion necessary to make him a leader among his highly individualistic brethren. Another: faced with a never-ending array of increasingly complex issues, the court itself is splintered and groping; its decisions often seem inconsistent...
...create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role. In part, it lies in the peculiar nature of the institution and the complex interaction of the nine individuals who are on the bench...
...make it spectacularly Down in New Orleans, the skyline bordering on the storied French Quarter is being reshaped by a trim and handsome outsider, Joseph Canizaro The company that carries his name has just opened a 32-floor office tower, the first of many buildings in Ms Canal Place complex astride the roiling Mississippi Early in 1 980, dirt will fly for a 25-story structure and three-level retail mall next door Canizaro is a millionaire who surveys the city, which he is doing much to change, from an office chocked with multicolored hard hats (''The boys...
...specifically cited these contributions, the public has latched on to Glashow's more recent hypothesis--that of the "charmed quarks." A testimony to what the imaginative selection of scientific names can do ("quark" originally comes from Joyce's "Finnegan s Wake"), charmed quarks are the next thread in this complex tapestry of theories. But while ingenious, the discovery of charm has no bearing on the awarding of the Nobel Prize. "No," Glashow bellows if you imply otherwise, "the citation from Sweden expressly doesn't mention charm. This is something else altogether...