Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profound conviction that space, this common property of mankind, should be exclusively peaceful and that what we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars." So said Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a four-day visit to India last week, his first journey to Asia since he took office in March 1985. In a speech before the Indian Parliament, Gorbachev declared that "what the world saw six weeks ago in Reykjavik was not a mirage of a nuclear-free world looming on the horizon, but a reality within reach, which the two sides could attain even tomorrow, if they have...
Meanwhile, the stock market suffered some profound jitters of its own. On the day after disclosure of the SEC subpoenas, the Dow Jones index of 30 blue- chip industrial stocks plummeted 43.31 points, to 1,817.21, the fourth largest drop on record. If anything, the Dow understated the market's nervous collapse. On the New York Stock Exchange, 1,390 issues fell that Tuesday, and only 283 gained. Many of the hardest hit were stocks that had been heavily traded by speculators in the anticipation of takeover action. Later in the week, as opportunistic traders saw many stocks as bargains...
Change -- painful and profound -- is something that U.S. auto companies, especially Detroit's Big Three, have been struggling with for years. Battered in the early '80s by recession and imports, GM, Ford and Chrysler were bolstered by short-term protectionist measures, chiefly the imposition of "voluntary" export restraints on the Japanese. By 1984 the Big Three had rallied to their highest profit level ever: $9.8 billion...
...foot." The Japanese, too, are cautious. Soviet efforts to warm relations began last January, when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze traveled to Tokyo. Since then, Moscow has wooed Tokyo with diplomatic concessions and hints of a Gorbachev visit, perhaps as early as January. In Vladivostok, Gorbachev pointedly called for "profound cooperation" between Moscow and Tokyo. Japan has the technology Moscow needs to awaken the sluggish Soviet economy and develop gas and oil deposits in the Soviet Far East...
...detail most youth comedies do without. Yet all the effort--clever dialogue, gruesome special effects, expertly choreographed car crashes--exists to propel an idea that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual peasant burial to guard against corpses rising from the grave. "What would happen if that body got up?" he recalled asking himself. "I'm totally unequipped to deal with...