And the eight new or sweetened college tax breaks contained in the so-called Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 are nothing if they are not complicated.

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If that's not complicated enough, as I write the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has brought a halt to negotiations for the second day running with its demand for a third track of negotiations.

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Here's the problem: If you don't have -- this is not complicated.

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The NFL differs from other sports in one major way: the sport is so relentlessly complicated it really does take years (if not generations) to master the fine points.

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If the child is a U.S. citizen, even if the mother may not be, it's a very complicated problem.

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If you have not figured it out by now, lawyers are expensive, especially for complicated white-collar crimes.

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What if the systems were not involved at all, but someone made a mistake in the complicated forensic analysis that accompanies tracking and tracing?

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Because if you approach these really complicated issues, looking through a pure ideological prism, you're not going to solve these issues.

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"If it's not gaussian then we have to re-think inflation or maybe inflation is more complicated than the simplest models suggest, " said Prof Marc Kamionkowski from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

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It turns out that today's class is not only just as complicated as global economics, it is quickly becoming the global economy, if it isn't already.

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