Word: complexity
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...Shorenstein Center, which is a division of the Kennedy School, focuses on the relationship between the press and public policy, one that Jones said is "very tangled and complex...
...pouring the shots of tequila into your throat at our World Class parties to make sure you're fuckin' fucked up." Larry proceeded to explain that all World Class student travelers - everyone on the bus - were members of the World Class family and that a complex network of American and Mexican travel reps had been set up to make sure that partying was in effect at all hours. Larry and Noe, a Mexican rep, then proceeded to gulp down full Coronas to prove that they were worthy of respect. The $900 each traveler had dished out to book through World...
...seems to belie the facts, data complied by Syracuse University Researches indicates that those lines are probably getting shorter--and it's not because taxpayers are becoming any more punctual. Congressional defunding of the IRS' auditing budget, combined with a dwindling staff and a series of complex new regulations enacted by the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 have led to decreases in auditing and less enforcement of penalties for delinquent taxpayers. It's a cheater's dream come true...
...insisted on developing products that Microsoft saw as a threat, Microsoft withheld technical support and raised the price it charged IBM for Windows. And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code. Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give...
...perhaps it is the complete lack of the epic scale that hurts the book as a whole. It would take a particularly patient reader to digest the 29 stories in one sitting but an even more intent reader to manage to surmise the complex connections between the vignettes, which are often too based on moniker relations rather than convergence of plot or metaphor. Often one finds the need for a family tree, a flow chart to keep straight the characters...