Word: profound
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...influence on University politics, on settling disputes, and on tackling difficult issues no one else wanted to take on, could not be more profound,” government professor Gary King says...
After professors at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences declared their lack of confidence in the embattled Mass. Hall chief, Harper wrote in an letter to Summers, “In my judgment, your 2004-2005 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatever...
...ladder.While the federal loan program has seen positive change, the world of private loans has been wracked by scandals that undermine student interests. As many financial aid packages recommend private loan options to students who are unfamiliar with the lending world, the need for accurate and thorough information becomes profoundly important. Private loans are an integral source of funding for students; in the 2004-2005 academic year alone, students borrowed over $13.4 billion for college tuition, according to the College Board. Unfortunately, many students are entering into debt uninformed—or worse, misled. Many universities, including Harvard Business School...
...Palestinians, the impact of 1967 was different and profound. It took the war to define a Palestinian identity. A people torn away from the Jordanians and Egyptians, under whose suzerainty they had been living, the Palestinians forged nationalism out of anger and searing loss. And gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book...
...Professor Darnton seemed born for this position,” Hyman, who chaired the advisory committee for the search, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “He is a profound scholar, a historian and lover of the book, who is also quite at home with bits and bytes...