Word: profound
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...constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning an enhanced status, however, the Shi'ites have become a dangerously radicalized and fractious lot. The outcome of the internecine disputes within this branch of Islam could have a profound effect on the larger struggle for political control in Lebanon and on the outcome of the current hostage crisis...
...computer industry has been a source of profound national pride in recent years. While other parts of the economy have sagged, computer makers have maintained the tradition of American ingenuity and skill. But last week even they seemed badly shaken. Buffeted by plummeting profits, slow sales and excess capacity, the industry resembled a sophisticated data processor suddenly gone awry...
Last week, as forensic experts in Brazil worked to determine whether the bones unearthed at Embu were those of Josef Mengele, the family's dam of silence crumbled. In announcing his father's death in a 100-word statement, Rolf Mengele, 41, briefly expressed "profound sympathy" to concentration- camp victims and their families. A few days later Rolf, with the family's consent, turned over to the West German magazine Bunte a batch of photographs and documents said to depict his father's 36 years on the run. At the same time, Dieter Mengele, one of Josef's nephews, told...
Former Secretary of State HENRY KISSINGER at the University of South Carolina in Spartanburg: "We hear very often, with the advent of the new Soviet General Secretary, calls for a meeting between our President and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union. This reflects a profound American temptation to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry and that relations among nations are like relations among people. But the problem is not so simple. Tensions that have persisted for 40 years must have some objective causes, and unless we can remove those causes, no personal relationship can possibly deal...
...great occasion," Aloian says of Solzhenitsyn's appearance, adding, "It was exactly what a Harvard Commencement should be, a wonderful and profound individual dealing eloquently with a major issue...