Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quantico, Va., a number of Marines are enduring the rigors of a very different course that seems closer to Miss Manners than the halls of Montezuma: training to be diplomatic guards at a mock-up of an embassy called Marshall Hall. Social etiquette is the topic as a gunnery sergeant combines a lecture with a slide show. A photograph of a diplomatic reception is projected. "What kind of dress do we say they're wearing there?" asks the sergeant. "That's right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman...
Ronald Reagan radiated more than his customary high wattage of optimism last week in Ottawa as he addressed Canada's 386-member Parliament. His topic: the possibility of a Canada-U.S. agreement that may soon create the world's largest free-trade zone. Amid fierce applause, the President promised to throw the full weight of his office behind that much discussed but never quite accomplished prospect. Said Reagan: "To those who would . . . fight a destructive and self-defeating round of trade battles, Canada and the U.S. will show the positive...
...when too much work becomes too mundane, students turn to another favorite topic: how much they hate Harvard...
Although for centuries kings, emperors and politicians have hotly disputed this topic and men and women have shed their lifeblood to defend their opinions, even today the answer eludes scientists and philosophers alike...
Dumping is a topic that only an international trade lawyer could love. The basic concept is simple enough: dumping is selling a product for less than the cost of making it. That has been a world-trade problem ever since mass production made it easy for companies, inadvertently or otherwise, to turn out more goods than customers want. When stuck with anything from too many dolls to excess semiconductors, manufacturers often sell the products in other countries at very cheap prices rather than throw them away...