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...Woody playfully throwing ideas around as to actually crafting character arcs. The script seems to pose questions: What happens if the Winklers struck it rich? What happens to people when they achieve their dreams? Because the comedy is broad and fast, the answers to these questions aren't particularly profound. But then again, the Winklers never really have a design on _being_ profound - both Ray and Frenchy are recklessly impatient. Both of them imagine happiness as a state that can be achieved instantly - Ray wants money, Frenchy wants to be cultured...
...disproved with empirical evidence. Congress funded a four year fact-finding mission before passing VAWA, where it was determined that employers lose $3 billion a year to domestic violence as a result of workplace absenteeism. That figure is sufficiently high enough to indicate that gender violence has a profound effect on the economy...
Although the report did not officially endorse a living wage, Rudenstine, University administrators and members of the committee all emphasized the profound effect of the living wage campaign on yesterday's decision...
...millions of unemployed, unappreciated, overqualified women sitting at home waiting for the man in the gray flannel suit to return from work, Friedan memorably identified "the problem that had no name." Today she's the grande dame of the modern women's movement, arguably the most profound social revolution of the century. "Not arguably," she told TIME in an interview. "Absolutely, incontrovertibly and irreversibly...
Think for a minute: Is there a technology right under our noses that will make many of our own environmental fears moot? Yes, there is. It's called the Internet. According to scores of studies, the dotcom revolution is already starting to have a profound impact on the way industry affects our world...