Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female gender into account as a plus factor. That's why affirmative action is another one of those issues on which it's more difficult than is immediately apparent to give the public what it wants. The debate around it really leads into a much larger and more profound question: Does America now provide genuinely equal opportunity for all its citizens? If the answer to that were a resounding yes, then affirmative action would be finished. But in most people's minds, the answer is no, and that makes the future of affirmative action complicated...
...writers into hedgehogs and foxes. Hedgehogs, he suggested, are individuals who relate everything to a single, all embracing principle, while foxes are those who see a multiplicity of things without fitting them into some universal system. (Dostoevsky was a hedgehog, Tolstoy a fox.) Berlin regarded this contrast as a profound philosophical difference that divided writers, thinkers and even politicians...
...pleased to see first-year enthusiasm in Yard contests for the council, even if those hotly contested races may simply result from a profound ignorance of the council's historical ineffectiveness. However, we are disappointed to learn that the upperclass elections are pathetically non-competitive. In Adams, Cabot, Lowell, Mather and Winthrop Houses, there appear to be tens of uncontested seats. Nevertheless, we encourage all students to vote as a show of support for the council...
...been at the forefront of discussions with the deans," Rudenstine said. "The information technology agenda will bring-about a profound change, and we're putting a lot of emphasis on that...
...Redux is revolutionary in a deeper sense as well: it represents a profound change in the way medical science looks at obesity. "There is an increasing consensus," says Dr. Michael Lowe, a weight- control expert at Philadelphia's Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, "that obesity is at least a chronic condition and maybe even a chronic disease that is in many ways indistinguishable from diabetes and hypertension...