Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...injury to White gave Gizzi his chance in the glamour spot, instead. Typically refusing to be pinned own on the topic of how firm Gizzi's grip is on the starting spot. Restic said, "One game doesn't make quarterback...
...parliamentary debate, there is no nationwide annual resolution and debaters learn the topic only 10 minutes before they start speaking, Chris DeMoulin, president of the American Parliamentary Debate Association and a senior at Swarthmore College said. "Everyone can heckle--that's the best part," he added...
...SEVEN-MAN Democratic presidential campaign rolled into town last week, debating the topic "How to Avert a Nuclear War" at the Kennedy School. After agreeing for more than a hour that everyone likes the idea of a nuclear freeze, all the candidates decided to go out for ice cream together...
...book, which analyzes the successful management styles of such pacesetting companies as IBM, Procter & Gamble and McDonald's, has become a how-to manual for executives eager to put their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...
Because of the controversy that often accompanies the topic, the group has an informal agreement to set aside definitional arguments and keep its discussions on as theoretical a plane as possible. To this end, Vogel says he and Reich try to keep the seminar depoliticized...