Word: complexity
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Yesterday, national educators also praised Rudenstine for his handling of Harvard's complex bureaucracy...
...read your informative article "Never Too Buff," about increased testosterone use by men [HEALTH, April 24]. You noted the new book The Adonis Complex, which reveals men's obsession with their body image. Maybe the authors should consider changing the title to The Narcissus Complex. Muscles alone maketh not the man. BARRY SWINDLES Auckland...
...information economy becomes more complex, more technology intensive and demanding of ever higher levels of skill, it is no surprise that decentralized decision making--what we otherwise call a market economy--takes over from central planning. But there is another factor at work as well: globalization, along with the information-technology revolution that underpins it. A country that decides to opt for a heavy-handed, government-controlled economy will find itself falling further and further behind countries that are economically freer. Formerly, it was possible for socialist countries to close themselves off from the rest of the world, content that...
Global politics is growing more complex. States will remain the principal actors in global politics. But they are being joined by many other actors, including failed states such as Sierra Leone, suprastate organizations like the European Union, interstate organizations like the International Monetary Fund and INGOs (international nongovernment organizations) such as Greenpeace...
They are your nightmare, these "white-collar robots." The complex products from German software giant SAP will do to your company's innards exactly what forklifts and robots and containerization did to the blue-collar world circa 1960. Installing these tools is not easy. The technical part is harrowing; the politics are horrendous. When the blue-collar robots arrived, the unions raised hell. This time it's management bureaucrats who are turning Luddite. Why? These tools threaten their cozy baronies, carefully crafted over several generations...