Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors at BWH call the Caesarean section rate issue quite separate from other gynecologic complaints. Any discussion of delivery techniques inevitably becomes tied to the national debate on the subject. BWH's Dr. Ryan, for instance, has worked on a National Institute of Health task force on the topic and sent a memo to his staff in July 1981 expressing concern that BWH's section rate was too high. He recommended a long-term review independent of specific complaints Last spring, while the review was still pending and shortly after the Joint Committee filed its grievance. Ryan took what...
...Hong Kong's 5.5 million nervous residents, has never seemed more in need of clarification. From the luxurious mountaintop mansions of "the peak" to the factory floors of Kowloon, from the shimmering office towers of the business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms of the 99-year lease that imperial Britain...
Which is better, a hamburger cooked on a griddle or one broiled over a flame? The question sounds like a backyard debating topic for a summer afternoon. Yet business has been slow of late in the $35 billion fast-food industry, and last week the issue had burgerdom's three leviathans in a sizzle. Tempers flared when the Burger King Corp. of Miami, the nation's second largest fast-food restaurant chain (3,500 outlets, $2.3 billion in 1981 sales), launched a provocative $19 million network television ad blitz designed both to grab off a bite...
...must know by now from watching the evening news, your image is the number-one topic of conversation among unnamed officials in the White House. Our goal is a quick face-lift: zap those wrinkles of elitism and remind the American people that Ronald Reagan is a sweet guy who can still get tough, an economic radical who knows well enough not to know too much and to leave well enough alone...
...posh salons of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, the hors d'oeuvres are being passed around with tidbits of the spiciest scandal to hit Tinseltown in a long time. The titillating topic: the double life of the late multimillionaire Alfred Bloomingdale. His paramour of twelve years, Vicki Morgan, 30, is suing his estate for lifetime support of at least $5 million. His socialite wife Betsy claims that Morgan was paid for sexual services and is entitled to nothing more. Says Los Angeles Times Society Editor Jody Jacobs: "It's caused a real stir...