Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debating had become very rewarding but also nerve-wracking because of the demands college competition places on creativity, memory, discipline, and most of all, time. She and Foutz spent months researching the nationwide topic that year, "employment...
...time when the freeze movement is growing rapidly, Graham himself came out on the side of the activists, speaking at Harvard on the topic of peace in an age of nuclear weapons build-up. The religious community at Harvard was ready for Graham, and undergraduates from Christian fellowships on campus became involved in Graham's mission, serving as counselors to people attending Graham's sermon at the Memorial Church...
JOURNALISTS wishing to advance their own views on a topic must usually follow certain forms; I wish to discuss Harvard in a grand and over broad manner, and hence must resort to the guise of review books that do the same. They, however, will be put down with a few snide and summary remarks, and I will then take my ego out for a stroll of some length...
...interesting aspect of the QRR mess is not whether proctors do or don't give improper assistance during the administration of tests, though this has understandably been a hot topic of conversation among freshmen Attention should in instead be focused on why a fundamentally good idea has resulted in such havoc...
...gave the standard it-won't-happen-again apology for overcovering crowds outside the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage crisis. Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger aptly pointed out that "in no country ... is the concept of freedom of information the same as in the U.S." That topic merits 90 minutes by itself - it is the overarching problem that American correspondents face - yet it got scant attention, except in offhand remarks about being denied access to combat zones...