Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sept. 9 for his first visit with President Reagan. The intent is to focus those meetings on the prospects for a resumption of the long-stalled Israeli-Egyptian negotiations on Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. The autonomy issue is also expected to be the main topic of discussion at this week's summit, the eleventh between Begin and Sadat, in Alexandria. Since they last met in early June in the Sinai, Sadat has abruptly changed his attitude toward the Palestine Liberation Organization: he is now publicly calling for the P.L.O.'s inclusion in the peace...
...topic during the week-long lecture series will be "Buddhism and the Modern World...
Beyond a verbal reprimand, what should the U.S. do about Israel's unilateral action? This touchy topic was first tackled in depth late on Tuesday afternoon, after López Portillo's farewell meeting with Reagan at the White House. A group of Reagan's top advisers assembled in the Oval Office for an hour and 15 minutes. Present were Haig, Allen, Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and the President's troika of Aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Mike Deaver. They reached a consensus with little argument: Israel...
Sometimes, it's hard to see what all the fuss is about: yet every year University officials remain tight-lipped, at times even touchy about the process of choosing honoraries and a speaker (Bok said he was "uncomfortable" discussing the subject, and would not go into details), the topic permeates dining hall conversations, and The Crimson confidently predicts honors for Harry Truman and harasses every source in town for clues as to who else will be in the spotlight. As with most commencements, the lustre is meant to be supplied by the speaker: a distinguished, recognizable figrue who has something...
...someone so effervescent. Her thesis for the Economics Department was the offspring of a mating of her scattershot nature and her resolution. Photo spent weeks working on data that eventually got garbled in the computer. Two weeks before her thesis was due, she changed the focus of her topic. She didn't start writing the text until five days beforehand. At 3:30 the day it was due, she had no introduction, no conclusion, no footnotes, and no bibliography. Photo dictated the introduction and conclusion to her typist, and handed her chapters in with only the barest bibliography and footnotes...