Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COURSE, THERE ARE profound differences between the programs of Deng and Mao which give Deng's a better chance for survival. The cultural revolution unleashed an orgy of violence and civil strife which Deng is committed to avoid, an understandable objective in a land of a billion people and hence Hu's fall. Moreover, Mao's call for the spiritual transformation of his subjects into selfless collectivists flew in the face of human nature and Chinese reality. Deng's agricultural reforms, by contrast, have unleashed peasant energies, generated massive increases in outputs and doubled rural living standards...
...evening of Sept. 27, 1985, at the climax of the Greenpeace scandal, General Rene Imbot, a square-jawed French army officer who had just been appointed chief of the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, France's overseas intelligence agency, went on television with a startling pronouncement. "To my profound stupefaction," he said, "I have discovered a malignant attempt to destabilize our secret services, I would say even, to destroy our secret services!" Asked to clarify this, Imbot replied, "I won't say any more about it. I am chief of the secret services...
Well, in the days since, the phrase lead on, o kinky turtle has assumed a profound significance in the course of my wanderings. I use it in a kind of incantatory fashion, muttering "lead on, o kinky turtle" whenever I feel shorted, stiffed, put upon by outside forces. I keep it handy, as you would a rabbit's foot, for there is a lot of bullying going down in this town, my new home, and one must strive not to be caught without a device to ease the pressure gathering under the hood. Lead on, o kinky turtle. The first...
...deficit gets under way. Behind the barrage of statistics and beyond the parade of partisan interest groups fighting for bigger shares of the federal pie, the issue at stake is, quite simply, the well-being of the U.S. economy. The outcome of the budgetary wrangles could have a profound effect on taxes and take-home pay, interest rates and the cost of a house, the health of the stock market and the value of the dollar...
...opponents of change. A very profound and serious movement has begun, and a very profound and serious struggle lies ahead. Between the people who want these changes, who dream of these changes, and the leadership, there is a layer of officialdom that does not want changes and does not want to lose some rights associated with privileges...