Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cronkite seems emotional about this topic, he has reason to be. Many media experts, including colleague Rather, worry that a Cronkite--no Redford even in his younger days--would never be given a chance by today's news directors. Viewers didn't turn off Cronkite because he wasn't attractive enough, yet many present-day news directors seem oddly convinced that they would today. It's a mystery why they continue to ignore the lessons of the past and to ascribe to viewers such superficial values. Who says news-watchers are looking for "beautiful people" as anchormen...
WITH COLLEGE ADMISSIONS a hot topic of three years' standing, educators have found it difficult to shift their perspectives from that pre-college transition. Yet that's exactly what the current crisis of quality so desperately demands. Consequently, old-school admissions officials try to deal with today's deficiencies by tinkering with the admissions process, blindly hoping that high schools' traditional admissions anxiety will prompt them to upgrade their curricula...
...Freshman Week for the Class of 1983: swimming tests, ice cream "bashes," and fervent 4 a.m. philosophical debates with nameless people from across the hall. Sex came up as a topic of conversation now and then as well. And at the center of all this frantic activity was Catherine Oxenberg, queen of the facebook, object of the collective lust of Pennypacker 25 and countless other male suites across the Yard...
...financial topic has been the subject of more consternation during the past three years than interest rates. And no wonder. The cost of borrowing money, which affects virtually every area of the economy, has been at the highest level since the Civil War. Last week's fran tic activity on Wall Street showed that professional investors believe that falling interest rates may drop even further. There is much less agreement, however, about their longer-range course...
...more aware of her sexuality. The inspiration of the fitness gurus was to set exercise to the disco beat and make the regimen fun; sex is, after all, a form of exercise for two. Says Helen Gurley Brown, who, as editor of Cosmopolitan, is paid to think about Topic A: "Women are becoming real sexual athletes now. Health gives women stamina that allows them to give full range to their sex drive...