Word: profound
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...legislation that would make the most profound change in the U.S. economy would be the elimination of the withholding tax [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 16]. Most taxpayers think of take-home pay as their income and regard their withheld tax money, which they never see, as not their own. If we all had to sit down and go through the bloodletting of writing a check to the IRS once a year, we would no longer joke about $9,000 screws for fighter planes...
David never recovered. There was a profound emotional undertow in his life, and his father was not there to help him. If he found being a Kennedy difficult before, with all of the competition and crushing expectations, he now saw the price that his father had paid, that they all had paid, for that identity, and his soul seems to have recoiled from what he was. David began experimenting with drugs not too long after the assassination. In a new book that Ted Kennedy's press secretary has bitterly denounced, Authors Peter Collier and David Horowitz offer a procession...
Both John Neumann and Ru Selle Harwood's suicides have had a profound impact on the Harvard-Radcliffe community. As Ted Polich, a junior in Eliot House, has put it, their deaths have made almost everyone reflect upon what is most important to them. For Ted, a member of the Harvard football team who was laid up in Stillman Infirmary, as was I, the most central thing in his life is not the fierce competition for grades, but the love of his family and friends. Friends, from the legions I see streaming past my room into his he has many...
Publication is an important part of the flow of science: stopping it will have a profound impact," says McKay Professor of Applied Sciences R. Victor Jones, adding. "It'll mean a loss for the country, a loss for the University, and a loss for the advancement of science...
Director Jonathan Demme behaves like the "Kool-Aid Mom," only simplistically examining the entrance of thousands of woman into the workforce--an event that was to have a profound effect on the initiation of the women's movement two decades later...