Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismissed as a rubber-stamp parliament. However, last week's gathering in the vaulted, neoclassical chamber of the Great Kremlin Palace was different. As the 1,500 Deputies filed in to take their seats, diplomats and journalists who crammed the visitors' gallery animatedly discussed only one topic: Would there be a selection of the next President of the Soviet Union? Since Leonid Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, the ceremonial and highly visible post has been vacant. Kremlin watchers now wondered if Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who had so swiftly succeeded Brezhnev as General Secretary...
...Corporation has postponed taking any action until it receives a report on the controversial topic expected this spring from the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...
...with reluctance that I respond to your many articles on sexual harassment at Harvard but I do so because one particular aspect of this sensitive topic has not been adequately discussed. I am referring to the issue of race, more specifically, those cases where the harassed and the harasser are of different races. There is evidence on this campus and in the community at large that Americans react differently to a black person involved in a case of sexual harassment...
...Last month 350 conservationists at a meeting in Indonesia of the World National Parks Congress decided to end the unchecked deforestation most societies had taken for granted. At this year's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, tropical forestry was not lumped under the general topic of botany, but given special consideration...
When news of the text's dovish stance leaked last June, National Security Adviser Clark wrote fellow Catholics asking them to press the Administration views upon the bishops. The topic doubtless came up when Clark and President Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy...