Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "This is a very urgent issue that needs to be handled very carefully." Not a single member of the board was willing to recommend a default during a discussion of the topic at this month's meeting. Lawrence Brainard, a senior international economist with Bankers Trust Co. in New York City, warns that default would set off "an unholy scramble" to grab the few Polish assets in the West. Unlike Iran, which had an estimated $12 billion in gold and bank...
...appointment represented a historic first for three reasons: I was the first naturalized citizen to become Secretary of State; the first Secretary who had visited Peking and Moscow before his appointment; and the first Secretary since World War II who did not part his hair. He pursued the last topic relentlessly, speculating as to what category Dean Rusk, who had no hair, belonged: "My barber, who is a very wise man, said, 'Well, Mr. President, he didn't have much hair, but what he had, he parted.' " In my reply, I evaded this fascinating subject. Nixon disappeared immediately afterward...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY officials, in the spring of 1969, sponsored a campus-wide "convocation" on the topic of Vietnam. As Alan Adelson in his book SDS recounts it, the day's final speaker, historian William Leuchtenberg, "brought the whole thing to a head. Woefully he warned that Americans are losing faith in their democracy." But the radicals throughout the crowd cheered and called out things like 'It's about time.' Leuchtenberg said: 'Our hope lies in the ballot box.' "BULLSHIT' cried the radicals...
...noncombatants. U.S. rules of military conduct spell out internationally accepted standards in even greater detail. The instruction could eventually make important improvements in the country's grim human rights record. According to a U.S. Army spokesman, the Salvadorans are "very sensitive to this issue. It is a topic of conversation to them, as well as a topic of training...
...official dinner at the White House was given for visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 53, and his wife Suzie, but the principal topic of discussion was china. "President Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, dear friends," said the Egyptian leader, rising to propose a toast. "Before I start, I would like to first congratulate Mrs. Reagan for the new china, which is very elegant and very beautiful." Mubarak, in his diplomatic way, was referring of course to Nancy Reagan's celebrated $209,508, 220-place, 4,372-piece set of Lenox china, paid for last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation...