Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Kennedy's "ask not" formulation was better put, and Eisenhower's too: "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." But Bush's simplicity was profound, and more in keeping with his underlying message. After a negative campaign that valued victory above all, Bush's positioning himself as a moral leader may seem strange. But the new President, for one, believes that the election "was then" and that the "time to govern" should obliterate inconvenient memories...
...company's involvement in tobacco, the Big Fig Newton hangs up his green booties for good. RJR-Nabisco's new owners, the takeover giant Kohlberg, Kravitz and Roberts (a.k.a. Harvard's slush fund), fill his pointy shoes with another prominent ambassador of good will. "Indeed, it is a profound honor to assume such a prestigious post. It is a veritable step up the ladder, one might say," former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III tells Gourmet magazine...
...just turned 13. I was in the seventh grade, and I skipped band every day to sit around in free period reading science fiction. I remember reading a lot of Harlan Ellison. It was the age when "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream" can seem a profound statement of the human condition...
Elsewhere, this demoralizing line of reasoning leads to more profound conclusions. Unlike most autobiographers, Julian concedes that what he remembers is only a crude map of his former self. "Our attempts to recover or uncover the past and what really happened are doomed at the outset to failure because it is we ourselves who are doing the investigation," he admits. "We move on. We become someone else...
Nearly four years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev pledged that the payoff for perestroika (economic restructuring) would be an increase in the quality and availability of consumer goods. So far, to the profound distress of Gorbachev's supporters and the growing impatience of Soviet citizenry, precisely the opposite has taken place. The arrival of the new year, traditionally a time of gift giving and feasting in the Soviet Union, served only to highlight the burgeoning list of products that are hard to find, rationed or simply unavailable. Even Gorbachev sounded dispirited over what has turned into the most severe consumer crisis...