Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right-to-life movement, the rulings were a dispiriting defeat. "Now the court is virtually promoting abortion," said Paige Cunningham of the Americans United for Life Legal Defense Fund. President Reagan, whose Administration had argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of the abortion restrictions, expressed his "profound disappointment." The President supports a pro-life bill sponsored by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and a constitutional amendment to ban abortion sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Both measures are expected to be debated by the Senate this month...
...doubtful that we could go back to a Congress of citizen legislators at this stage of our national life. But the drift toward a Congress of elected bureaucrats has touched off a profound philosophical confrontation. One side believes that all Government servants must be thoroughly divorced from the private sector so as to eliminate conflicts of interest and corruption. The other side argues that a Government of the people, by the people and for the people must have leaders who move back and forth between the private and public sectors. Without cross-pollination, this thinking goes, the Government loses touch...
...covert aid to anti-Sandinista guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua and based in Honduras. On Friday, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone stopped in Nicaragua to meet with members of the junta and the Marxist-led Sandinista directorate. Said Stone, in Spanish, on his arrival: "I am interested in carrying out profound conversations...
Historian David McCullough, author of The Great Bridge, at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: "If you could pick the Brooklyn Bridge up and turn it over, you'd see stamped there MADE IN THE U.S.A. It was built by people who had a profound self-regard, which they expressed through their work. Two great points were made by John A. Roebling, the designer of the bridge. The first was 'that this greatest of bridges will not only be the greatest engineering work of the continent and of the age, it will be a work...
...longer, about half the real difference of life expectancy at birth. With annuities, on the other hand, women get reduced monthly payments. The total amount women collect is actually higher on average because they earn interest for a longer period of time. "The unfairness and injustice of this are profound," says NOW President Judy Goldsmith. "The woman doesn't pay any less for food at age 65, or for rent or for anything else...