Word: topic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow had been swept with rumors that Chernenko might step down at the plenum because of poor health. But the sole topic at the one-day session was agriculture. Chernenko outlined an ambitious 20-year development scheme, calling for the reclamation of 44.5 million acres of desert and swamp land, mainly in the country's temperate southern regions, by the end of the century. In the meantime, Moscow will have to make up for this year's poor harvest with extensive imports. Ironically, help is coming from the Reagan Administration. Under a new five-year grain-sale pact...
Perhaps the best approach would build on a suggestion from Ranney: A series of four debates with a different format for each, testing the candidates in a variety of settings. One might be a variation of an old-fashioned debate with stated topic, statements and rebuttals, and the candidates questioning each other; another could be a debate along present lines; the third and fourth might be modeled on Polsby's extended conversations. In some form, debates probably will and certainly should continue; the task is to prevent them from freezing into a mold that satisfies no one except...
...know it's a slow year on the Faculty when the hottest topic is posthumous degrees...
...most part, the particulars of a tenure decision are strictly, a closed-door matter, intensely private and rarely a topic of open conversation. But in the wake of two recent charges of discrimination, outsiders are, for the first time in years, getting a rare close-up look...
...apparently less than eager to speak on the much-discussed topic...