Word: profoundly
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Lobby with a Weapon. The A.M.A. Washington lobby may not be, as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff charges, "the most powerful in America," but it commands the profound respect of beefier, louder-talking outfits. The A.M.A. lobby, has only 13 people in its Washington office. It picks its legislative targets knowingly and concentrates its fire, and it is the envy of other lobbies because it has a secret weapon: the Congressman's personal physician...
...Profound Changes. The dip is due to some profound changes in the U.S. housing market. Conventional mortgage credit rates recently dropped from an average 6.3% to 6%, but for the first time since World War II, a credit loosening has not triggered a new building-buying spurt. Most economists take this as a sign that the nation has pretty well built itself out of the long postwar shortage of homes. In the 1950s, family formations averaged only 830,000 per year, but builders put up houses at an annual rate of 1,200,000 to 1,600,000. Now, because...
...does quote from such conservative philosophers as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk-but he sounds uneasy when he does so, and he is often a disappointment to groups who come expecting to hear a conservative egghead. Goldwater himself is the first to confess that he is not a profound political thinker. "I'm not a philosopher," he says. "I'm a salesman trying to sell the conservative view of government...
After tracing the "fundamental changes that have occurred in the last generation," he concluded that in the future "the changes will be more rapid and more profound even than the ones I have depicted...
...recruits are hard-working students who may have sensed scholarly fakery in what they are told to read and listen to, who have found motives for learning more profound than being able to "cream" an exam, who enjoy following their own lines of thought and study, who have faith (sometimes exaggerated) in their powers of self-education; who, in short, believe that they will learn best what they want to learn. In its first sense (a gay freedom within academics), abandon means staying away from vapid lectures, auditing widely, and mostly, haunting the libraries and bookstores, reading broadly and selectively...