Word: profounder
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Lately the market's spasms of insecurity have grown more profound. In a stampede of selling last Monday, the Dow dropped more than 100 points by noon, only to bounce back to a modest 22-point decline for the day. The Dow finished the week down 64 points, at 3136.58, a 240-point decline since mid-September. Many analysts attribute the pessimism to a host of misgivings, including uncertainties about the outcome of the presidential election. Most worrisome has been the prospect of an extremely sluggish economic recovery and the apparent decision by the Federal Reserve Board...
While Bravo's contemporaries, especially the Surrealists, experimented with many of the same innovations, Bravo's position as a Mexican artist adds another dimension to his work. As a citizen of a nation characterized by profound cultural exchange between Indian and European, Bravo works in at least two visual frames of reference...
...liberation movements in Africa. He has founded a department of jazz studies at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, where he lives with his second wife Ruth Cameron. He has four children; all are musicians who have in their father a man who has already left a profound mark on contemporary jazz...
...most profound impact of the advocacy movement has come within the Food and Drug Administration. The agency has for decades held to the rigid standard that new drugs must be unequivocally proved to be both safe and effective. But in the wake of intense lobbying, the FDA will now consider granting conditional approval to experimental treatments for terminal diseases for which there are few or no medical alternatives. This is a radical shift for the nation's pharmaceutical watchdog. Drugs conditionally approved will be closely monitored and withdrawn if they prove to be too toxic or ineffective...
...Smith's performance. Randall Kennedy, professor of law, expressed his "delight, curiosity, and admiration" for the performance: delight at its artistry, curiousity about Smith's biases, admiration that the biases were so unidentifiable. Kennedy praised "the way in which you were so generous with your characters," bringing "a profound empathy to each and every one." Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure, reflected on the ways in which the Black and Jewish communities were represented. He commented that the Lubavetch community, while very noticeable in Crown Heights, is statistically a small and thereby unrepresentative part of the larger Jewish...