Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHANGING ATTITUDES. The setting can have a profound effect on a woman's reaction. Most of those who have illegal abortions find the experience horrifying and degrading. Women who have abortions in public hospitals, where nurses and doctors are sometimes overworked and brusque, are often unhappy too. But women who undergo early abortions in specialized outpatient clinics are far less subject to depression. Many of the clinics are staffed by young women who have had abortions themselves and understand the patients' feelings...
...offensive of 1968, and later through all the growing pains of Viet Nam's fumbling efforts at democracy, Bunker did nothing to diminish his reputation. Now President Thieu's intransigence in the face of Bunker's efforts to ensure a fair election has proved a profound disappointment to the septuagenarian diplomat. He is on his last assignment, and the unwarranted blemish at the end of an otherwise superlative career hurts deeply. The pain was evident as Bunker met with newsmen, including TIME Correspondent Stan Cloud, who sent this report...
...arduous and uncertain, but if only there is a will for peace, all obstacles can be surmounted and peace will be achieved." In the year since, few obstacles have been surmounted, and a formula for peace has yet to be found. But the year-long respite has produced a profound change in the mood of the combatants (see box, following page...
...anger. We cannot live without it. Civilization and its discontents are too burdensome to bear with equanimity. But we can at least improve the quality of our anger. We can refuse to glamorize it when it is self-indulgence, the sound of baby shoes stamping. We must acknowledge its profound shortcomings as a purgative. Anger finally is the emotion of impotence-mortality up against its limits and refusing to recognize them...
...23rd Man. Tito's new departures could have as profound an effect on the course of world Communism as his 1948 break with the Soviet-dominated Cominform and the subsequent economic innovations that have made the Yugoslav model the inspiration of East European reformers. The new measures included two main steps...