Word: profound
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...Meese's disclaimer was typical: The tax plan, he said, should not be taken seriously--for although it has been sitting on the President's desk, the Chief Executive had yet to peruse it. The very surprise that Presidential aides showed at the proposal's negative public reception suggested profound lack of understanding the nation's political concerns today...
American Catholicism has also undergone some profound internal changes. In the age of immigration, Catholics essentially were strangers in a predominantly Protestant land. Reacting to nativist charges that their spiritual loyalty to Rome was somehow more important than political loyalty to their new homeland, Catholic immigrants and their children sometimes attempted to be superpatriots...
Most experts agree that Andropov does not yet possess and may never achieve the power necessary to effect profound changes in the Soviet Union. It took several years before Khrushchev and Brezhnev were able to assert themselves as the Soviet Union's unchallenged leaders. Says Harvard's Adam Ulam: "The process of succession does not begin with the death of a leader, nor does it end with the designation of his successor...
...went to my high school class and said to my classmates that Tom Vallely would be at the JFK School, they would probably laugh," he says. "But Vietnam had a very profound effect...
Novak, who defends nuclear deterrence as a way of preserving peace, primarily challenges the bishops on strategic grounds. "Their position would make war much more likely," he says. He feels the underlying political flaw is blindness to the Soviet threat. "What is amazing is the profound anti-Americanism of the document," he insists. "You cannot face this moral question without facing the reality of the Soviet Union. The bishops are holding Europe hostage to abstract thinking, because the absence of an American deterrent would raise the probability of a Soviet invasion. You don't qualify as a peacemaker just...