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...think the people that came of age were old enough to witness the '60s but were also never easily turned into yuppies. There's this profound sense of unease that makes us want to sweep it under...
...panelists at a Radcliffe-sponsored roundtable discussion last night concluded that, both as candidates and as voters, women had a profound effect on the 1992 election...
Rather than outrage or even surprise, I had a profound sense of deja vu. While an undergraduate student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in the 60s, a white coed from the Boston area was raped about six blocks away from campus...
...French Resistance put forward a social scheme that both employer and employee would finance to protect workers against three basic contingencies: illness, unemployment and old age. The plan also included specific family benefits to encourage French couples to begin replenishing the depleted population. Underlying all of this was a profound sense of solidarity, a word still heard in French conversation. "The French social security system provides for solidarity between generations," says Michel Lepinay, author of Social Security: Bankruptcy by Prescription. The programs are also a spur to equality by making the same payments available up and down the economic scale...
...more concerned with himself than the world around him. Ford wasn't a monster and he wasn't a hero; he provokes no more interest in himself than that he stewarded the country during Alf's life. The same with Buchanan. He might have had a more profound effect on the country's history than Ford, but he didn't provoke much interest in himself--the bulk of Alf's tale is about the people in Buchanan's life, including Russian czars and Nathanial Hawthorne...