Word: deeper
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...supposed to mark the country's full emergence from the dark epoch of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. But Uganda's unruly general election last week, the first in 18 years, only served to plunge the country deeper into its political muddle...
With oil costs soaring, the hunt for alternatives to OPEC petroleum has become a global obsession. To bolster conventional sources of crude, oilmen are drilling more and deeper than ever before. Often they are going to depths of 15,000 ft. or more, and frequently in storm-tossed seas that not even a seasoned mariner would care to navigate. A record 60,000 new oil and natural gas wells are expected to be dug in the U.S. this year, as compared with 27,602 in 1973. Meanwhile, engineers are racing to find new and more effective methods to recover...
...might regard all sermons, lectures and political speeches as superfluous. Such testiness, however, can be shrugged off as a symptom of hyperactive intelligence. The criteria for talk should be appropriateness and pertinency. The essential question is: Does it subtract from or enhance the moment into which it falls? The deeper reason that sports commentary is annoying is that it so often ruptures the flow of the main event. The effect is easier to see when one imagines it occurring in the middle of a true drama, Othello...
That has been the story of the hoopsters so far--a season of 'almosts' and 'if onlys.' Saturday night's 66-59 loss to New Hampshire was no exception. The hoopsters, now 1-5, are digging themselves quite a hole, and it gets deeper with each loss...
While the divestiture issue and what many student leaders have charged as the University's insensitivity to their needs for a Third World Center can be viewed as the epitome of Harvard's bureaucratic and institutional lack of concern, the recent threats and the Klitgaard report cut far deeper. The report calls into question the correlation of minority students' high test scores with actual academic performance and questions Harvard's affirmative action policy, and appears to have dealt a severe psychological blow to minority students on campus...