Word: complexity
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Occupation Complex. History has left some psychological scars on the Shah's 20 million subjects. After centuries of conquest, Iran has a kind of occupation complex, vividly exemplified by a tenet of its Shi'ite sect of Islam, which holds that a man may legitimately disavow his religion in time of danger. ''Deep in the Iranian mind," says one Middle East expert, "lies the conviction that nothing ever happens in Iran except by the desire of a foreign power." Many of the middle-class Teheran intellectuals and business men who most heatedly denounced the recent election...
Along with other habits picked up from their former French masters, the men who rule Laps seem to like to make frequent and complex changes of government. Last week, nearly a month after Paratroop Captain Kong Le forcibly overthrew a pro-Western Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.), Laos once again had a new government-one so complex that even its members were not sure what its policies were...
...suffered a nervous breakdown, had been ill with a stubborn grippe, and was always 'deadly bored." In spite of his popularity, he was chronically lonely and in spite of his laureate's standing the shifting Party lines of Soviet literature had left him with a persecution complex. Besides, the latest of his long series of love affairs was going badly. Most important all, he was fed up with propaganda and propagandists. "You can't immediately steam out the swarm of bureaucrats" he wrote. "There wouldn't be enough bathhouses or soap...
...sextants of economists are the business indicators, statistical pointers that help to chart the course of the U.S. economy. They range from measures as complex as interest rates and demand-deposit turnovers to such personally felt statistics as the amount of personal income. When the U.S. economy surges forward or turns sharply back, the indicators usually agree -and so do the economists. Now. with the economy resting on the highest plateau in history, business experts are nervously indicator hopping in search of some clue to its next shift. To some, it is headed for another recession or is already...
...business world still buzzing over Chrysler Corp.'s conflict-of-interest troubles (TIME, Aug. 22), Shanks was shown, in a Wall Street Journal article, to have been the buyer of valuable timberland for Georgia-Pacific Corp., a Prudential borrower and the biggest U.S. plywood producer, in a complex deal that could save him as much as $400,000 in income taxes. At week's end, the New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department, watchdog of the Pru's home state, was looking into the transaction to see if there had been any violations...