Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...topic is of great concern to many Americans. A Roper poll last year found that 80% of those interviewed want the number of immigrants allowed into the country legally each year to be reduced. A Gallup poll showed that 76% would ban the hiring of illegal immigrants. "There is anger out there," contends Roger Conner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Washington-based group leading the battle for more restrictive policies. "There is fear. There is outright paranoia...
...following morning for a series of lectures at Gund Hall, Levitt spoke about small entrepreneurs. quoting Lewis Mumford and the needlepoint legend on a pillow a friend gave her. Buckwald, who noted that. "It is no accident that Knoll invited a humorist to discuss the topic of creative leadership." said. "The organization responsible for all our troubles in the Middle East is the Harvard Business School--if they hadn't taught the sons of Arah sheiks to-screw us, oil would be $3 a harrel...
...Topic A around the White House was how to respond to the Democrats' spending and tax plans. Oklahoma Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said that he had been approached by representatives of the Treasury Department to talk compromise. The White House quickly denied any such wavering of intent. "Why should the President compromise?" asked Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "He is doing fine standing still." Vice President George Bush declared that Reagan's program must be passed "unsalamied"-meaning that it should not be subjected to the "salami tactic" of paring it down slice...
...hrer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise. When the Führer...
...from an original statement drafted by two representatives of the tutors. I think the vast majority of tutors would agree that the interests of graduate students and undergraduates have been will-served by the revision. That a few old tutors may be unhappy about the deletion of a favorite topic is understandable, for inertia is a powerful force in human nature. But we all are subject at times to change and growth...