Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, there is profound confusion over what it means to be a man today. Men have faced warping changes in role models since the women's movement drove the strong, stoic John Wayne-type into the sunset. Replacing him was a new hero: the hollow-chested, sensitive, New Age man who bawls at Kodak commercials and handles a diaper the way Magic Johnson does a basketball. Enter Alan Alda...
...years, the newspaper's circulation has slipped from 10 million readers to 7.7 million, and it is expected to drop to 3 million in 1991. Pravda's declining appeal is in part caused by higher subscription costs, imposed while the economy is virtually at a standstill. But a more profound reason is the simple fact that Soviet citizens no longer need to put up with an unappetizing diet of Communist propaganda. Rather, they can turn to a welter of new publications at street kiosks, from the liberal weekly Moscow News and Tema, a newspaper that supports gay and lesbian rights...
...citizens into full- or part-time custodians of their grandchildren precisely when they were preparing to ease into retirement and a new independence. Unexpectedly robbed of the "grand" part of grandparenting, many feel angry and resentful. They are also bewildered by their children's choices, which they find in profound violation of their own values...
Saturn's best hope is that it represents a profound change in the way GM manages its people. But the difference is not technological. Saturn's cavernous, mile-long Tennessee factory is a medium-tech plant, as are many of the most efficient facilities in Japan. The core of Saturn's system is one of the most radical labor-management agreements ever developed in this country, one that involves the United Auto Workers in every aspect of the business. The executive suite in Spring Hill is shared by president LeFauve and U.A.W. coordinator Richard Hoalcraft, who often travel together...
...garage across from the Kennedy School Monday night, Bok may have thought the most difficult questions he would face that day were the demands of disgruntled students angry about Harvard's Afro-American Studies department. But a Harvard Police Officer would soon pose a far more challenging and profound question: "Mr. Bok, do you have a destiny we could assist you with...