Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is once again a hot topic at Harvard. While the College and the Core monopolized the Faculty's attention for over a decade, the grad school is now getting its share of the limelight. Five departments have changed their graduate programs in the past year, and the GSAS itself is receiving its first searching review in 15 years...
Open discussion on the topic sponsored by the council last spring failed to reach any consensus, but the committee on housing plans to devote more time to the issue this fall. The College is reportedly waiting for a firm proposal from the council before it takes up the issue again...
...most of the 13,000 journalists at the convention, the main topic of conversation was how hard it was to find a story. Said Walter Cronkite: "Up to now, the dullest one I ever covered was the 1956 convention that renominated Eisenhower. But this here may well win." There was almost no conflict, surprise or suspense, none of the drama that TV thrives on. Thus network floor reporters like Wallace had to hustle to find interviews that would get onto the air. They had no breaking news to follow, no deep divisions to exemplify. They did not even have many...
...Roman wrestlers around the Soviet Union and East Germany, but no one spoke of hollow victories in boycotted company at the moment of burly Jeff Blatnick's memorable tears. It staggered him and everyone else. And the financial stripe of Mary Decker's shoes stopped being a topic of much interest once they became tangled in the loose limbs of a dramatic child, as Decker fell by the wayside of her lifelong race. Barefoot Zola Budd of South Africa and England padded onward in tears and boos, but her heart appeared to have dropped beside Decker. So that...
With discoveries like the quarks, physicists are just beginning to understand the universe's most fundamental laws Probing ever deeper they are redefining our understanding of the world, but a proposed new accelerator which would significantly increase physicists capacity has become the topic of hot controversy among scientists who study elementary particles Accelerators produce extremely high energy collisions between matter and anti-marter travelling at close the speed of light in opposite directions around a ring several kilometers in circumference...