Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sound the trumpets, beat the drums in honor of and with profound gratitude to that peanut farmer [March 19] from Plains, who has accomplished, by his own initiative, what no other American President...
Perhaps the most profound development, in the view of many specialists, is that the Middle East alignment has been altered. Says Harvard Professor of Government Nadav Safran: "The whole chessboard has been changed by the move of one of the major pieces on that board-Egypt." This move significantly reduces the chances of yet another war in the region. Explains American University President Joseph Sisco, who was the State Department's chief Middle East adviser under Henry Kissinger: "Without Egyptian participation, war is simply not a viable Arab option at this point. The treaty thus deepens the irreversibility...
...teach Afro-American Literature because it makes a profound statement about our people and our heritage as it makes itself manifest in historical time...
...reason for such a move is an effort by psychiatry to retrieve its cloak of medical respectability at a time when the public is confusing it with charlatan therapies. Psychiatrists also are becoming more hard-nosed. They are increasingly convinced that their profession may not have the answers to profound political and social problems, and should perhaps restrict itself to getting measurable results with the truly sick. One current refrain: psychiatrists should become good team players, assisting other medical specialists in fulfilling their obligations to the sick. Many hospitals now have psychiatrists available for consultation on every kind of problem...
...revolution has been the role of the Muslim religion. The Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution was aimed to a large extent at restoration, a re-establishment of the Islamic spirituality and law that had been, so the faithful believed, desecrated by the Shah's modernizations and the widespread, profound corruption of everyday life. Iranians were caught in an intolerable bind: their daily routines were elaborately oppressed by a stupid, corrupt bureaucracy, and yet everything in Iran (costs, salaries, the pace of change) was moving at ungodly speeds. Eastern European official stolidity was impossibly combined with Western velocity...