Word: profound
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...Langley. Despite much scrimping, last year the $170,000 budget ended up $35,000 in the red, and the couple were barely able to pay themselves $17,000 each. The project's survival is due mostly to the generosity of 18 foundations and private donors. "It's a profound idea that won't save the world, but might make a lot of folks feel better," says William L. Bondurant, executive director of the North Carolina-based Babcock Foundation, which so far has donated...
When Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci tours defense installations in the Soviet Union this week -- the most senior American official granted that privilege since World War II -- he will find the military in the midst of one of those profound shake-ups that have plagued the Red Army since Leon Trotsky helped build it in 1918. Under Mikhail Gorbachev's program of perestroika, the world's largest military machine faces unprecedented political pressure to slim down, open up and rethink its basic strategy. At the same time, the armed forces are plunging into the electronic age in a frantic drive...
...choice is more than a mere wanting. It is a profound longing, a matter of identity. David's younger brother Stephen wants only to play football for West Virginia and go on from there to play professionally, even if it means leaving the hills and the coal mines. David wants his father's identity, his land and context...
...poem is aimed at children with a profound and growing problem: for varying reasons, they have simply quit trying. Many students actually brag when they receive an F, as if it were a flag of proud defiance. Kids who wave it see no reason for caring how well they do. Life is pretty good right now, they conclude. Won't it always be this way? They seem immune to external motivation from parents or teachers. These children languish, blankly passing time behind their desks until a lure like drugs or gangs or other trouble leads them away...
...long run. "The retail shop on the street is the key to a multi-use downtown," explains Jaquelin Robertson, former New York City planning commissioner. "It is the life and character of the city. No one goes to Europe," he adds, "to walk along skywalks." Indeed, the profound urban lessons Americans have recently learned, in part, from Europe -- the importance of preserving old buildings, the singular pleasures of the piazza -- are at odds with the skywalk epidemic...