Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Support for the Reagan amendment was the prime topic at a Washington "profamily" strategy session of the religious right. Meanwhile, opponents unveiled a new coalition of 72 organizations at, naturally, a prayer breakfast. Buddhists and American Indians turned out in full regalia, joined by Jews, Muslims and Christians. The group charges that school devotionals create "the very interreligious tensions and conflict that the First Amendment was designed to prevent...
...them till they're settled." But his greatest strength, says another, is that "he knows when to use clout and when to listen." For instance, when talking to Menachem Begin, who tends to obscure issues with lengthy digressions, Habib will tenaciously steer the conversation back to the central topic. "He doesn't take opening positions too seriously but as a point of departure from which to make some progress," says William Quandt, former chief Middle East expert of the National Security Council. "He realizes that diplomacy is the art of the possible...
...Freshman Week for the Class of 1983: swimming tests, ice cream "bashes," and fervent 4 a.m. philosophical debates with nameless people from across the hall. Sex came up as a topic of conversation now and then as well. And at the center of all this frantic activity was Catherine Oxenberg, queen of the facebook, object of the collective lust of Pennypacker 25 and countless other male suites across the Yard...
...cold 1980 December night, before Ronald Reagan's newly elected Government was in power, Richard Nixon stirred a pitcher of exquisitely dry martinis in the study of his Manhattan town house and addressed the topic of the moment. General Alexander Haig had just been rumored to be the top candidate for Secretary of State. Beneath the famous brows, Nixon's dark eyes shone. "I know Al Haig," he said. "He is one of the most ruthless, toughest, ambitious s.o.b.s I know. He'd make a great Secretary of State...
...poverty-stricken society in which she works. Repeating medieval ideas about human-sexuality, she opposes birth control and abortion--the only possible ways of reducing the overpopulation responsible for much of India's devastating poverty. She uses her asceticism as an excuse to preach against abortion, her one topic when addressing Western audiences...