Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like so many other vengeful spasms in Iran, Ghotbzadeh's execution was a sign of the profound insecurity that reigns within the Khomeini regime. Islamic Guards are reportedly killing at least 30 people a night now; according to Khomeini's opponents, some 20,000 people have died at the regime's hands since July 1981. As Ghotbzadeh joins a long list of onetime Khomeini confidants who have been either killed or disgraced, the ailing Ayatullah, 82, appears more determined than ever to control Iran...
...understand data processing is not educated." But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leaves certain gaps. Says she: "The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of Sputnik and the cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and 19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic...
...seizure of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1950 had profound consequences for Jordan. Suddenly, some 900,000 West Bank Palestinians were under Jordanian rule. They, plus earlier Arab refugees from Israel, ultimately made the Palestinians the majority of Jordan's population. In contrast to every other Arab country, the Jordanian government immediately offered the Palestinians full citizenship...
...podium in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress last week to give his final state of the union address before retiring in December. Few political leaders have ever had to deliver a valedictory under such grim and humbling circumstances. Mexico's economy is staggering in a profound crisis that threatens the country's political and social stability. Inflation is running at 60%. More than half the population is unemployed or working at marginal, unskilled jobs like selling tortillas on street corners. The value of the peso against the dollar has fallen by 80% since the beginning...
...Tempest, Mazursky is describing not only a mid-life crisis but, metaphorically, the need of an artist-entertainer to escape the pressure to be both profitable and profound. "I wanna quit, I wanna get out, I wanna travel, dream, wander!" Cassavetes exclaims. Mazursky seconds the emotion the only way he knows how: by making a movie about not wanting to be involved in the business of moviemaking. Eventually, though, the artist must return home chaste and chastened. The climax of this two-hour 20-minute odyssey is a series of ecstatic helicopter shots over Lower Manhattan. It is a refreshing...