Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that the assumption of a necessary connection between breadth and shallowness is unwarranted. It is the quality of instruction, not the number of courses, that guards against superficiality. Both "general" and "special" education can be superficial or profound. The successful training of intellect requires teachers who believe in the importance of this approach to undergraduate education and who possess the talents to make it work...
...original purpose: a climax to the church's two-year observance of the U.S. Bicentennial. But because delegates spent as much passion debating justice within the church as justice in society, the conference also amounted to America's first nationwide Pastoral Council. It revealed a profound gap between Roman Catholic leadership and restless activists on a series of vexing issues...
...profound consequence is that the number of people looking for work is leaping faster than the economy can provide jobs, and unemployment sticks on a high plateau (7.8% in September). Because women and teen-agers are often among the last hired and first fired-and the least trained-their presence in the job market swells the official unemployment rate. And that much headlined statistic tends to exaggerate the image of dire suffering caused by unemployment. In September only 2.5% of those in the labor force had been out of work for 15 weeks or more and .6% for a year...
...grind to a halt if women demanded minimum wage for everything they now volunteer for. Maybe you don't think that would be such a horrible occurrence. But while you and I argue the matter, people who have been elected to public office are making decisions that have a profound effect on our lives and we don't even know who they are or how they think...
...tenth floor of the Hotel Okura in Tokyo and set in train the events which were to lead to the biggest scandal in the post-war history of Japan; his own dismissal along with that of Daniel Haughton, chairman of the board of Lockheed; and the most profound reconsideration in the United States of corporate morality, power and influence since the Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920's. But the Lockheed affair, as it unfolded on a worldwide stage, is more than a corporate immorality play. It is a disturbing illustration of the extent to which basic assumptions about...