Word: topicalism
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...craft the plan, believe in the power of big ideas. And they know that if the big idea is an optimistic one--and what is a trip to Mars if not optimism in action?--so much the better, especially in a campaign that will inevitably focus on the worrying topic of the war on terrorism. "This is not a school-uniforms President," says a campaign adviser, referring to a famous election-year policy of Bill Clinton's. "He thinks big. He leads...
...airlines' chagrin, this hasn't stopped passengers from following Sperry's lascivious lead. Nearly every flight attendant has had to deal with such meetings, says a 15-year veteran stewardess for a large Asian airline. "Usually, the people are drunk," she says. Officially, however, airlines pooh-pooh the topic. "Honestly, I have never heard of it happening," says Cathay Pacific spokeswoman Lisa Wong. At KLM, flag carrier for the Netherlands, spokesman Youssef Eddini was taken aback that we even popped the question. "It is simply not allowed," he ruled. Even the spokeswoman for Virgin Atlantic?whose owner, Richard Branson, once...
BOTH MEXICO AND THE U.S. ARE HEMORRHAGING JOBS TO CHINA. WILL THIS BE A TOPIC AT THE SUMMIT...
...been a long, three-year haul that started when President Bush and I were still state Governors and we often discussed the topic. What he announced this week is a very interesting and important step forward. But we have to keep working...
...only started to analyze the data," he says, "but the first impression is that the people we have looked at tend to look very much like regular people from all walks of life--that is, they tend to look like people who might fill out Web questionnaires on any topic. Second, by the measures of psychological health we were able to get, they tend not to look particularly psychologically impaired"--at least no more so than the general population...