Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, the concept worked well, professors and students say. The topic "is dressed up differently in each field, so that you don't immediately see, unless someone directs your attention to it, that it is the same thing," says Chayes...
...situations, helped build broad knowledge but little feel for the gritty problems of running a plant. MacAvoy says students too often "get bogged down in the big picture." What is needed, he believes, are not generalists but specialists in fields like capital management. He foresees that as "the hottest topic in business education during the next ten years...
...section of the slaughtered pig is eaten by which class, and how they cook it, as well as the music, dancing, costumes, and ceremonies which make up the rest of the celebration. But that sort of immediacy is missing in most of his scenes; a potentially lively and fascinating topic literally suffocates under the weight of the book's preconceived structure...
...last a year, with $13 million of the $22 million budget coming from A T & T grants. Says Senior Producer Phil Garvin: "We do not know if the hour show will even exist next year." ABC's Nightline, which initially borrowed the MacNeil-Lehrer Report's single-topic approach, emphasis on interviews and simple visual style, this April outpaced MacNeil and Lehrer in expanding to a multitopic hour; its ratings have dropped as much as 30%, and its focus has blurred...
Among the most popular systems are the so-called conference trees. Rather than storing messages in the order they were written, tree systems are organized by subject matter. This encourages topic-oriented discussions on anything from college tuitions to Middle East policy. Users start at the "trunk," a list of subjects for debate (NEIGHBORHOOD-POWER, NUCLEAR-ARMS), and climb "branches" of subsidiary messages (GIVE-PEACE-A-CHANCE, NUKE-EM-ALL). As subsequent callers add their own opinions, the trees can grow into dense thickets of give and take. In Santa Cruz, Calif., a conference called START-A-RELIGION began with...