Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian crisis has produced the world's largest and most complex psychodrama. Every day in Washington President Carter is brought up to the minute on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's psychological profile, a shifting and convoluted picture that is alien to White House experience. And the Ayatullah himself has already told the world that his actions are attuned to his perception of Carter's "guts...
...contested slab of territory before the cease-fire takes effect. To minimize such battles, Mugabe's troops will probably assemble at ten of the so-called guerrilla collection points, while Nkomo's men gather at the other six camps. But even if word of this complex plan can be relayed to the isolated bands of fighters spread throughout the countryside, the problem may not be over. Guerrilla commanders concede that many of their troops are young, in their teens or early 20s, undisciplined and unwilling to end the war before the government's forces have been decisively...
...Aramco is under attack because of a highly complex tax break. The company pays Saudi Arabia the fixed price for the oil that it extracts and then collects a production fee of 25? per bbl. But 85% of its payments are considered Saudi income taxes, which Aramco's four parents ultimately can use to reduce their U.S. income taxes. Every time Saudi Arabia increases its oil prices, Aramco's local tax payments rise, and so do its benefits under the U.S.'s so-called foreign tax credit. President Carter has vowed to tighten up on the credits...
...thriller. The biographer's own style is self-effacing, and he is content to let the characters tell much of their history in let ters. But such reticence does not obscure the fact that J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys is one of the year's most complex and absorbing biographies...
...take on the likes of Darwin, Marx and Satan, not to mention Sigmund Freud. He once parodied the prayer of a modern Pharisee: "I thank thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have no sin." After one summer vacation, the bishop breezily opened his show with the words, "Long time no Sheen...