Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europe three unprecedented decades of peace and prosperity. It is stirring concern that the much admired West German social consensus may be breaking down, inaugurating a period of paralyzing instability. Says Dominique Moïsi, an analyst at the French Institute of International Relations: "The fear is that profound change is going on in West German society...
...Washington. He did his job splendidly. He might even have known what he was doing. When he took the presidency he wrote, "I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent." That is at once beautiful and profound. It is no wonder he succeeded, entering office with such a code of conduct...
...silence was deceptive because the report on the Beirut massacre and Ariel Sharon's subsequent resignation as Defense Minister may have a profound effect, for better or for worse, on U.S.-Israeli relations. At stake is not only Washington's attempt to break the deadlock over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, but also the far broader objective, set out in Reagan's peace initiative last September, of solving the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan...
...effect in 1981, 51 percent of the Black athletes currently competing in Division I of the NCAA would be ineligible for competition. Grambling, Jackson State and Florida A&M could not effectively compete with nearby white universities for revenues in lucrative cable TV markets. It is either a profound irony or a travesty that SAT sores will be used to exclude Black males from collegiate athletic competition. They are that segment of the population for which the SAT's predict academic performance least efficiently...
Unfortunately, the very issues about which Naylor writes with profound clarity prove one of the novel's greatest downfalls. She wants to write about so many issues that at times she seems anxious to squeeze in at least a one-line comment about every contemporary social issue. At a moment when the protagonist of one story is on her knees, paralyzed with fear and horror before six youths who are about to rape her, Naylor takes time out to comment on the problems of the rapists...