Word: profound
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...political impact could be profound. To the Democrats who controlled Congress for a half-century, GrammRudman marks the end of an era, assuming its provisions are actually followed. No longer will legislators be able to view their primary role as dispensers of Government largesse. From now on, the overriding business of Congress becomes the politically unrewarding task of slashing, and in some cases abolishing, the legislative handiwork of the past three decades...
During the past few weeks, a number of international economists and bankers have made pilgrimages to Buenos Aires to see the miracle for themselves. "We have profound admiration for the courage and skill with which the government has seized the nettle and acted to curb inflation and to set this country back on the road to growth," World Bank President A.W. Clausen told a group assembled at Argentina's Central Bank last week. David Mulford, Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, declared during a visit last month that Argentina would be an ideal candidate for his government's new Baker...
...eleven a day. When the dollar value of those deals is finally totted up, it is certain to surpass the record $125 billion reached in 1984. Says Democratic Representative Timothy Wirth, who chairs a House subcommittee that has been studying acquisitions: "These mergers and takeovers are having as profound an impact on the American economy as the advent of the great railroads, the airplane and the telephone...
...year-old tradition of German Ausdruckstanz (dance of expression) and transforming it into the even rawer and more visceral Tanztheater. Their work, several vivid examples of which were seen in Brooklyn this fall, is a cultural outcry that rends the emotions: the tumult of a displaced culture engaged in profound self-examination...
...which had swept to power in 1976 vowing to withdraw the predominantly French- speaking province from the Canadian confederation, incumbent Premier Pierre- Marc Johnson, 39, conceded the election. "The people of Quebec have spoken," he declared. "They wanted a change, and from the appearance of things, they wanted a profound change." The scale of the victory surprised even veteran political observers. Liberals won 98 of the 122 seats in the provincial legislature with 58% of the vote, up from 46% in the 1981 provincial elections. The Parti Quebecois saw its tally plummet to 37%, down from 49% four years...