Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ploys & Gambits. The laughter died away, but not the topic. "Managed news" is hot stuff in Washington these days, but like the President and Mrs. Craig, no one quite knows what it is-and to what degree it is good...
Aside from the troubles of the Common Market, perhaps the most widely discussed economic topic in Europe is a spreading phenomenon known as "Le Plan." So called because the French, having Gallicized what they found useful to borrow, have pushed it hard at home and proselytized for it throughout Europe, Le Plan is a form of state economic planning, somewhere between Western capitalism and socialism. It is becoming a favorite device in Western Europe, designed to expand business, brake inflation and put critically short capital resources to the most productive uses...
Lecturing on the general topic of economic development, Smithies tried to avoid "giving Indians too much advice on how to run their own show." His own feeling is that India now places too much emphasis on heavy industry, and not enough on agriculture and light industry...
Thus, the Rules Relating to College Studies does not contradict itself when it states that "the Department of Economics will accept no concentrators in combined fields" and elsewhere says in regard to Soc Rel that "some students may want to focus their work on a particular topic or theme that requires considerable work in a related field. For example, the study of social problems in underdeveloped countries might call for substantial work in Economics....Students wishing to pursue an interdisciplinary tutorial of this kind will be required to take five full courses in Social Relations and two full courses, directly...
...Robert Hyzer, chairman of the hearing, emphasized that because it was an Army hearing, only questions concerning navigation could appropriately enter the debate. Neither side, however, kept to this limit, although each in its closing statement bitterly accused the other of unfairly straying from the topic...