Word: topicalism
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...people last week were as anxious as Al Gore about the peace initiative of Russia's Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finland's Martti Ahtisaari. As the Vice President campaigned in New Hampshire, the topic of the day was to have been health care for the elderly, but at every stop Gore met questions about the peace plan that had just been accepted by the Yugoslav parliament. Gore maintained a cautious face publicly, warning that it was premature to claim victory. Still, several times in private he dashed to a secure phone line to get the latest, increasingly optimistic assessments from...
...guides on how to save yourself from Y2K line the shelves of book-stores, Web sites analyze various predictions about the future of the world and those little millennium countdown clocks are ubiquitous. (And, need I remind you, this newspaper has chosen to devote an entire section to the topic...
...Knowles is far more conservative than Rudenstine, especially when it comes to spending money. He is skeptical, for example, of plans to move ahead on "distance learning" at Harvard--education over the Internet and through correspondence. Rudenstine, on the other hand, wants to push forward with planning on the topic...
...part, Minow presented an oration on the topic of memory, something that she referred to as the "brain's attempt to make sense of our experience...
They're just "not a real sexy topic," Triantafillou explained...