Word: profounder
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...College Board didn't respond to the incident with a profound apology, or even an indifferent "oops." In fact, this was neither a freak accident, nor a bureaucratic blunder. "It was not a slip-up," asserted Ray Nicosia of ETS. Defending the practice of reusing old exams, he said that ETS has been repeating versions of the SAT for "a great many years." Janice Gams of the College Board, adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form...
...black men who were there, it was also a moment of profound psychological vindication. In the most heated political and policy debates of recent years, black men have seen themselves cast, sometimes openly, sometimes with a wink and a nod, as the welfare freeloader, the affirmative-action hire, the low end of the bell curve, Willie Horton. Even worse than the stereotypes sometimes are the facts. For black men the average life expectancy is 65, eight years less than for white males. For young black men, the major cause of death is murder. Nearly 1 in every 3 black...
...office in Sparks. Soon after the bombing, Senator Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat whose support is centered in Las Vegas and Reno, decried the spreading ethos of defiance: "It is as if a sickness has swept our country." Whatever the diagnosis may be, nowhere are the symptoms more profound than...
...Gomes articulates very well and always has profound points to make," she said...
...begin a new debate in a new era, in a new venue--in fact, in 50 new venues," she said. "The decisions being made now will have a profound impact on the quality and even the duration of our lives...