Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mortgage the entire country's economic strength and future. Reaganomics is not even a shining success by supply-side standards--the president has all but ignored his campaign promises to balance the budget and slash government spending. The recent period of economic growth has been tempered by the deepest recession since the Great Depression, the panic on Wall Street, the rise of the "twin towers" (the budget and trade deficits) and a trillion dollar jump in the national debt...
...profoundly lonely one. In recent years, moreover, nearly all the people closest to the Tibetan ruler -- his senior tutor, his junior tutor, his mother and the elder brother who in youth was his only playmate -- have died. Yet this, like everything else, the Dalai Lama takes, in the deepest sense, philosophically. "Old friends pass away, new friends appear," he says with cheerful matter-of- factness. "It's just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful...
...record, I've always been a Jim Rice enthusiast, my worship growing with the seasons and partially in response to the boos. For the record, I'm also perfectly prepared to become a Lee Smith fan, given time and given his obvious abilities but for the moment, my deepest sympathies lie elsewhere. When I entered Fenway Park Monday, I knew just what had to happen--I had to cheer for Jim Rice...
INTO THE WOODS Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim's deepest work uses fractured fairy tales for fun and musing on growing...
...report as an exoneration. The gist of the study, said he, "is that I cannot be accused of personal involvement in atrocities." With rare candor, Waldheim plaintively told the Vienna daily Die Presse, "Yes, I admit, I wanted to survive" by following orders. He added: "I have the deepest respect for all those who resisted. But I ask understanding for all the hundreds of thousands who didn't do that, but nonetheless did not become personally guilty...