Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies, a $20 billion travel firm that owns Radisson Hotels...
...things seem crazy now, think how much crazier they will be when everybody is as wired as I am. We're in the midst of a global interconnection that is happening much faster than electrification did a century ago and is expected to have consequences at least as profound. What would happen if all the information stored on the world's computers were accessible via the Internet to anyone? Who would own it? Who would control it? Who would protect it from abuse...
...housing issue. Although growing concern is now associated with issues such as the shortage of caring for the elderly, the low quality of the education system and the potential strain on the budget caused by the imminent immigration waves from China, the housing issue can have the most profound and far-reaching impact on the territory's economy. In 1996, uncontrolled speculatimn drove apartment prices up by more than 30 percent, and affordable housing for middle and low-income families remains in stagnant shortage...
...most profound of all mysteries is how NASA has managed to persuade the government to continue funding the insanity of space exploration while it cuts essential services to here-and-now Americans. We have no compelling evidence of life beyond our own, and far from proving to the Martians that life on Earth is intelligent, the Pathfinder mission can only have the reverse effect on any aliens that might be busily tracking our activities from their UFOs. FAY KNIGHT Saratoga, Calif...
...three-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which freed up not just commerce but also the flow of ideas across the border with the U.S. Empowered by its huge size, the NAFTA generation promises to have an impact on Mexican politics, economics and culture as profound as the clout wielded by the older baby-boom generation in the U.S. Some 65% of Mexico's 95 million people are under age 30, and more than a third of the registered voters in last week's election were ages...