Word: topical
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Cuomo then proceeds to drop the topic leaving the reader wondering exactly why the issue should be so simple--they oppose busing, ergo they are selfish, period, exclamation mark. But, in the aftermath of major deterioration in many school systems where students are bused, and the violence and "white flight" that greeted Black students in yellow buses in South Boston in 1974, the concept of busing is no longer blindly accepted, even by many self-described liberals. Yet Cuomo blithely dismisses his audience, without actually telling us--or himself--why they are wrong...
...cost of living jumped by 18.5% in April, which is equal to an annual rate of 560.2%. In most countries, newspaper headlines and gossip focus on crime or sports; in Argentina, there is a morbid fascination with the economy. Even during the Falkland Islands war with Britain, the major topic of conversation continued to be the pocketbook. People are also intensely interested in talking about Argentina's $43.6 billion foreign debt, which represents about 75% of last year's gross domestic product...
...Charlie has had a fascination with this topic since the beginning of this term--when he made it an issue at the North House Committee and subsequently came to a meeting of the full Council to vent his views. Unfortunately, Charlie's zealous instincts are as misplaced as his arithmetic is bad ($3808 is not one-twelfth of this year's $70,000 budget...
What distinguishes What Do Unions Do? from similar works on the topic is the authors' heavy reliance on data to prove their case. For the first time, they use tools such as production functions and econometrics to demonstrate unions' effects on the economy. "The book is a quantitative approach to a subject previously vague and qualitative," says Medoff, adding, "it has a theoretical framework broader than the neo-classical approach...
...battlefield deployment of chemical weapons inflicted "only" an estimated 1100 Iranian casualties, a minute percentage of the hundreds of thousands of casualties suffered by both sides. Why wasn't the war the major topic of international discussion in February when tens of thousands of Iranians died in "preliminary forays" into Iraqi defense lines...