Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cuomo continued his attack on the Bushadministration throughout his hour-long address,calling the president's latest economicinitiatives "monetary steroids" which maytemporarily arouse the economy but "will donothing to deal with the profound economicweakness that threatens our future...
America is also on Japan's mind and stays there even after a Japanese outgrows blue jeans. American books, both pop and profound, can at times sell more in Japanese translation than back home in English. News is often seen through an American prism. Trends and movements sweep across the Pacific from America and take root. In Japan these days many people prefer whale watching to whale eating: environmentalism has arrived...
Those dismaying revelations had a profound effect on Wexler, becoming the driving force in her remarkable career and largely shaping her personal life. Today, at 46, she is best known for her work -- which involved tracing the family tree of thousands of Venezuelans -- that led to the development of a highly accurate test for the Huntington's gene. She is president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation and chairs a key advisory group of the $3 billion Human Genome Project, which is attempting to identify all of the more than 100,000 human genes and pinpoint their locations...
...central concern in American objections to Japan is that of fairness. Americans entertain a profound respect for the talents of the Japanese, for their hard work, their intelligence, their high standards of quality. James Kielt is a retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the Navy during World War II. Says he, remembering the Mitsubishi fighters and bombers of the Pacific war: "I probably would have trouble buying a Mitsubishi." He drives a Toyota Tercel. Says his friend John Wood, a retired retail chain executive: "The Japanese are probably more industrious than we. And I think...
...outlook--and succeeds winningly at a type of comedy that seems particular to the British. But what is important and moving in A Landing on the Sun, and what most likely won it Britain's most valuable fiction prize, the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, is its profound sense of prosaic tragedy. The laughing stops abruptly at the end of A Landing on the Sun, and in this breathless transition Michael Frayn succeeds magnificently...