Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baltimore meeting was the first of three sessions to be held on the topic. There will be another in Minneapolis on June 19-21 and a third in Los Angeles on July 10-12. The resolutions approved at all three meetings will then be taken to the President, who has pledged to try to carry out what has been proposed. Back in 1978 when he first announced a conference on the family, the idea seemed relatively noncontroversial. Ever since, conservative and liberal groups have been warring over how the family should be defined and helped...
...almost any topic, Reagan finds and stresses a connection with the Soviet-American rivalry. Israel is "a strategic asset" and "a deterrent to Soviet expansionism." He advocates military assistance to the anti-Marxist guerrillas of Afghanistan and Angola. Cuba represents "the threat of Soviet influence spreading through the Caribbean," and Nicaragua is a bear's paw threatening U.S. interests in Latin America. He even plays down the Sino-Soviet split, emphasizing that whatever the quarrels between China and the Soviet Union, "both are Communist, and both want to take over the world...
...past Commencements, the Vietnam War and Harvard's South Africa-related investments--symbolized by white arm bands--have been the main objects of student demonstration. Not so this year, when the main topic of protest is not what the nation or the institution is doing but rather what the Commencement participants are wearing...
...December, Helene Sahadi York '83 reported to Judith B. Walzer, assistant dean of the college for co-education, that Kilson tried to kiss her on the lips as she was attempting to leave his office after seeking advice on a paper topic for his course...
Garbage is nobody's favorite topic of conversation, but University Health Services (UHS) officials devoted a lot of time to the subject this fall when the University's sole outlet for disposal of low-level radioactive waste suddenly shut down. Getting rid of the less-than-deadly waste, produced by area laboratories and hospitals at the rate of about 3500 30-gallon barrels each year, proved more than a slight headache for University officials when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray closed the Hanford, Wash., dumping site in early October...