Word: profound
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...Where historians are concerned, breadth and depth are not antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view of history is, I submit, well worth espousing; and is not an ignoble aspiration for a History Department. Angeliki Laiou Chairman, History Department
...public, of course, Husak had effusive praise last week for Gorbachev's policies, and promised his "full support" for the Soviet leader's "bold ideas, profound reforms and resolute deeds." But behind closed doors the Gorbachev policies have been causing serious troubles within the Czechoslovak party. In fact, there were rumors that Gorbachev's visit was delayed for three days because local leaders could not agree on their own policy toward reform. Last February a Soviet delegation led by Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited Prague to try to smooth over the differences. The Czechoslovak party has been split between hard...
...Reagan, weakened by the Iranscam scandal, the sanctions were an unprecedented gamble. On one hand, they expressed the Administration's "profound disapproval" of Japanese trading practices in the sensitive semiconductor field. On the other, they were an integral part of the Administration's strategy to address the country's ghastly trade deficit. The semiconductor measures were also intended, ironically enough, to help block a rising protectionist tide in the U.S. Congress, but they could just as easily have the opposite effect...
...DISPUTE surrounding Baby M involved profound issues of law, psychology and theology. Whitehead thought she had a product to sell, in this case an unfertilized human egg, and a service to offer, that of a mobile human incubator. Stern wanted what Whitehead could provide and agreed to a price. What went unaccounted for in the deal was Whitehead's joy at the baby's first kick, whatever sense of expectation surges together with a bout of morning sickness and the satisfaction of a mother holding her child in a delivery room...
...followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates of the dead rose above 1,000, a shaken President Leon Febres Cordero, fresh from viewing the stricken areas by helicopter, proclaimed, "We are facing the biggest, most profound and complex problem in our history...