Word: profoundly
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Without the power to discipline and reward, the always fractious F.D.R. coalition has pretty much fractured. Even many blacks deserted the party they used to support almost by instinct. A profound psychological shift occurred in American voters: they lost much of their desire or need to be part of a political majority, but instead formed themselves into single-issue constituencies, an oddly specialized and peculiarly destructive version of politics. In the era of single-issue politics, it is not a broad political agenda, a party's view of the nation, that is important, but gun control or abortion...
...ALTHOUGH THE unfair labor practice suit--which the union will now try to clean up as quickly and as neatly as possible--is no longer viable legally, it still represents a profound moral problem. The University will continue to exert pressure on union officials who vocally and emotionally oppose its tactics and attitude. And that small number of union officials who are made to feel uncomfortable about their livelihood because they believe in continuing the struggle--whether or not they are "harassed"--will remain frustrated in efforts to tackle an imposing administration...
...economic policies have been modified to give greater initiative to local factories and farms. The government has offered new latitude for artists and writers, and it has risked sending thousands of scholars and scientists to study in the capitalist West. Taken together, these peaceful changes could ultimately prove as profound as those that came with the armed Communist revolution in 1949. Rarely in history has a ship as large and unwieldy as the People's Republic of China been turned so sharply...
...inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year-old bourbon. One knows his flawless Alaska book, while making lyrical, profound reading, misses much of Alaska, for few there give a damn about art, and fewer still have any particular use for politeness...
...bombing was a profound embarrassment for Marcos, who only minutes earlier had assured the ASIA delegates that political terrorism in his troubled country was "a nightmare that we hope is past and gone." A terrorist group calling itself the April 6 Liberation Movement, after a massive 1978 anti-Marcos demonstration in Manila, had warned the travel agents to boycott the convention. Even though terrorists had set off some 20 bombs since August, killing one person and injuring scores, American embassy officials in Manila and the FBI assured ASTA that the chances of an incident were small. To make them even...