Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-year term in August? Last week, for example, at a New York City luncheon for 20 top money managers held by Morgan Stanley & Co., the investment banking firm, Admiral Robert L.J. Long talked at length about the Soviet military threat. But at all the luncheon tables the topic of conversation was Volcker. At Manhattan's "21" Club, several businessmen were overheard discussing the Fed chairman. Eight blocks away at the Algonquin Hotel, Arthur Levitt Jr., chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference, talked about who, if anyone, might succeed Volcker...
...status of Harvard's nonresident students continued to prove a topic of lively debase yesterday, as the student faculty Committee on Housing considered a variety of methods for both increasing the allure of off campus living and minimizing the problems of students forced to live off campus because of president crowding throughout the Houses...
...world's oldest existentialist: "Look for the risk. We must obey it every time. There is no credit to be drawn from the virtue of one's past." This figure has given much thought during his lives to the mysterious, possibly magic properties of human excrement, a topic that Mailer has pondered in an essay called "The Metaphysics of the Belly" and in various interviews. The purpose of Menenhetet's research, he tells Ramses IX, is "to enrich the marrow of our failing lands," a task reminiscent of the "great mission" that Mailer took up on behalf...
...about two hours. In a question and answer period, one woman asked the candidate to "tell us about yourself, tell us why we as delegates should vote for you." The senator replied in a tone equivalent to the solemnity of the seminar, "Let's not stray from the topic. Believe it or not, this is not a Hart for President event I don't want to detract from the speakers...
...Faculty Council--the Faculty's executive steering committee--voted to recommend to the full Faculty adoption of the general principles, which set down on paper for the first time the University's position on the controversial topic of "technology transfer...