Word: deeper
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...support for a giant accelerator goes deeper than a desire for federal dollars. To many scientists and politicians, national pride is at stake. Proponents insist that the SSC is necessary to keep the U.S. in the forefront of particle-physics research. Americans dominated the field from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, but Europe's CERN started stealing much of the glory in the 1980s. Without the SSC, its proponents contend, many of the best American physicists will emigrate to Europe. In fact, the brain drain has already begun: last year, for the first time, the number of American experimenters...
...offers tremendous opportunity for capitalizing anew on the merits of many peoples from many lands. Yet this fundamental change in the ethnic makeup of the U.S. also poses risks. The American character is resilient and thrives on change. But past periods of rapid evolution have also, alas, brought out deeper, more fearful aspects of the national soul...
Economic and political issues, however much emotion they arouse, are fundamentally open to practical solution. The deeper significance of America's becoming a majority nonwhite society is what it means to the national psyche, to individuals' sense of themselves and their nation -- their idea of what it is to be American. People of color have often felt that whites treated equality as a benevolence granted to minorities rather than as an inherent natural right. Surely that condescension will wither...
...average fan cannot relate to the Goliaths that populate the NBA and the NFL. I enjoy watching hoops and football as much as any weekend warrior, but baseball stirs something deeper...
...Harvard officials claim that the committee is unaware of its positive involvement with the city. On the contrary, we acknowledge and laud such projects as last year's James Taylor benefit concert for homeless citizens. Such events, however, fail to address the deeper problems of affordable housing and too often serve as ornaments for Harvard to point to or hide behind...