Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grotesque curiosities. Well, look again. The odd couple isn't so odd anymore. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, of the 2 million weddings performed each year in the U.S., 22% are between older women and younger men, up from 16% in 1970. "It signals a profound change in how men and women are looking at each other, and what is considered a satisfying relationship," says Writer Victoria Houston, 42, whose husband Brant is nine years her junior. Indeed, declares Psychologist Sally Peterson of New York City, far from being financially or sexually exploitative, these couplings represent...
...students at Yale can be creative as well as imitative, and other, more profound T-shirt themes abound. Other mottoes include, "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's where you go to school," "They may beat us on the field, We will beat them off," and, "Harvard's the disease, Yale's the Cure...
...them who always looked to Washington for a solution to their problems. "We'll talk to the circus owner and not the clowns," Ortega has said when asked why he will not deal directly with the contras. Though he modified that stance last week, those words still reflect a profound inability to recognize what the Sandinista-contra dispute is all about: a domestic disagreement over the future of the land...
...Huntington returned to South Africa during Harvard's summer break. No doubt he was gratified to discover how much influence his earlier paper had had. According to a South African political scientist, the "profound manner in which Huntington's address to the Political Science Association of South Africa prescribed or reflected state strategy is clear in the light of subsequent events." (4) Huntington's reform strategy quite definitely informed the South African government's efforts. His 1981 paper helped provide the intellectual justification for, and is cited extensively in, proposals for the 1984 constitution, cornerstone of State President P.W. Botha...
...that said, one may well wonder at the wisdom of programming concerts as one might "program" a recording. Brahms's late music is beautiful and profound, but it is also, from an audience's standpoint, exhausting to listen to in long stretches...