Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know quite why this is, whether I'm so remote from the right that I don't take them seriously at all. I do take people who run the New York Review of Books seriously. I find that their contempt for the democratic system is so pervasive and profound as to be death-dealing and menacing really...
...current fiscal year will reach an astonishing $38.8 billion. That is the biggest deficit since World War II, and it came under the man who in 1968 complained that the smaller deficits of the Johnson Administration had "wracked and dislocated the economy" and produced "a profound crisis of credibility" in monetary affairs. Moreover, the balance of payments deficit for 1971 is now calculated to have been an equally unprecedented $31 billion-far larger than the imbalances for which Republicans have often at times past assailed Democratic Presidents...
...that the Pentagon is right, and that the ship really is Russia's first attack carrier (it already has two cruiser-sized helicopter carriers). If so, the decision to build an attack carrier represents a dramatic and fundamental shift in Moscow's naval strategy, with profound consequences for the rest of the world. "It changes the whole ball game," says retired U.S. Commander Robert Waring Herrick, a onetime naval attache in Moscow who wrote the authoritative book, Soviet Naval Strategy. "It could be an event of historical significance that would change the entire mission of the Soviet navy...
...clear whether Mujib is more profound than his stirring rhetoric. His political success so far is due largely to his ability to marshal public opinion in East Bengal by blaming all of its troubles on its former rulers in West Pakistan. He has a tendency to make extravagant promises, and to oversimplify complex economic and agricultural problems. "My brothers," he once told a gathering of East Pakistani jute farmers, "do you know that the streets of Karachi are paved with gold, and that it is done with your money earned from exporting jute...
...able to bring about a large measure of political stability for the first time since Nehru's death. India is still poverty-ridden and in need of foreign aid, but its industries are developing rapidly in size and sophistication. All these factors, reinforced by military victory, may bring profound psychological change in India and a lessening of corrosive self-doubt...