Word: profound
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While the monumental win allows the Crimson to continue its quest for the Ivy League title, it also had other profound ramifications. The Crimson now enters the final leg of the season--four games remain, all of them Ivy contests--with a sense of unbounded confidence and team camaraderie...
...impression received by fair-weather spectators--a group which probably composes the bulk of any Olympic audience--grew out of a completely super-field and symbolic reference to our hockey team, at the expense of the more profound and substantive elements which determine the Olympics' true character and significance...
...continuing occupation is having a profound impact on the Israeli forces. Some high-ranking Israeli officers, including Major General Yossi Peled, argue that this enormous burden has caused the I.D.F. to neglect its training...
...talks about his work as a novelist to the moment where Sarandon liberates herself from the maternal clutches of Stapleton, one senses that The Buddy System is not merely a sappy romance, but an unsuccessful attempt at cautiously confronting contemporary issues. The characters repeatedly resort to grandiose gestures and profound philosophical statements when simple actions would suffice. Dreyfuss doesn't need literally to cast his manuscripts out to sea and let them blow in the wind to convince us that he is through with writing, just as Sarandon doesn't need to climb into bed with her son to convince...
...policy, combined with a real change in our nuclear deployment, be a public relation coup, but it would also break the deadlock in the arms talks since, with a conventional defense, the numbers of warheads becomes less important. In this sense, No Firs Use is a much more profound move towards peace than a nuclear freeze which leaves policy matters largely untouched. No First Use allows the United States to move beyond a freeze, removing both the need for counterforce first strike missiles and the justifications for attempting to match the Soviets bang for bang...