Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reich says that all nations by definition have an industrial policy, and his work focuses on trying to identify and harness the forces of it. To this end, he and professor of Sociology Ezra F. Vogel began a faculty seminar on the topic...
...group meets once a month to discuss a pre-determined topic, often with a guest speaker, in an atmosphere Reich describes "bouncing ideas off each other...
...decided to develop a series encompassing all points of view," one producer recalls. Organizing the ambitious project came with risks as the producers began researching and structuring a vast and complicated subject without knowing how the public would react. Even though most corporations refused to fund the controversial topic, with help from ABC (which also provided all their archive material from news reels plus outtakes--royalty free), various foundations, the National Endowment for the Humanities and of course the Chubb Group, WGBH embarked on supervising the project...
...book also identifies structural problems with the VA hospital system, a topic Start says spawned what became his dominating research interest over his graduates year--the development of American medicine...
...weeks ago, for example, the topic was legal precedent: does it dictate later rulings, or can it be manipulated? The question "is right at the head of the traditional view of law, but you never talk about it," says Chayes...