Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a tendency in the U.S. to wrestle with a complex topic like school violence by setting it up as a political debate, such as Is it the proliferation of guns or the increase in violence in the media that's more to blame? Most parents realize it's both--there's no reason that kids should have easy access to arsenals of weapons or that their movies and games should revolve around gruesome fantasy killings--and a lot more as well...
...active Pakistani military involvement. Thursday's shoot-down is taken by India as further proof of Pakistani complicity. The countries have fought two of their three wars in the past five decades over Kashmir. But now that they're armed with nuclear weapons, leaders on both sides face the complex challenge of retaliating ever more forcefully while avoiding an actual...
...claims and we shall persist in the quest to vindicate them. At the same time, we have come to see more clearly that our struggle with Harvard touches concerns that go beyond the particulars of my case. We have come to better understand that my case raises complex and urgent issues about the ethics of academic life and the practice of university self-governance...
...individuals become more litigious in their attitudes, the intersection between College disciplinary policy and the legal process becomes more complex for this school and for every school." said committee member Peter T. Ellison, associate dean of the Faculty...
Chernomyrdin is fighting battles of his own. The Russian is irritated with Milosevic's and Clinton's intransigence. His aides say Chernomyrdin has formed a picture of Milosevic as a complex leader split between two desires: to save face and to save his own skin. As the air war intensifies, Chernomyrdin aides say, Milosevic has started sleeping in a different bed every night and swapping cell phones for fear NATO will use them to pinpoint him for an air strike...