Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kidd is, in fact, the man to beat at this year's Princeton off-topic debate tournament; a month before, he won the sport's most prestigious championship in Toronto. For his fourth-round match, Kidd must disprove the proposition: "If you have to ask, you'll never know...
...only is Williams, the man, an institution but so are his daily teas. While talking of Williams, every person mentioned his afternoon teas, where any topic of conversation is brought up. Drinking tea and eating cookies, Williams and his students, colleagues, and frequent special guests talk about people's special projects, politics, his trip up the Amazon, silk in Japan, or any miscellaneous topic that comes to mind. Even Williams' own work is analyzed by his visitors at tea and everyone says he takes the criticism very well...
Best to divert them with tales of double-800s who are happily attending state schools and absurd geographical diversity cases that make it into Harvard. They don't believe you, but it seems to make them feel better until the topic changes to sex, by which time only the special-interest partisans are left, and you lead them out into the humidity beyond the Yard for bitter-sweet chocolate ice cream
...more. In the past three years, interest rates have shot up higher than anyone could have imagined earlier, and they have suddenly become Topic A in the beleaguered American economy. The high cost of money has crippled the Administration's economic program and endangered President Ronald Reagan politically. Expensive and scarce money has begun driving homebuilders, auto dealers and businessmen from every walk of life out of business, and in such numbers that bankruptcies around the country are beginning to rival those of the Great Depression. The cost of money is crimping the investment that U.S. industry needs to make...
Speaking to more than 100 people on the topic of "Alliance Security in the 1980s," Rogers called for NATO defense budget increases and renewed emphasis on conventional forces. He also stressed the importance of NATO unity...