Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you meet "the boys" the topic of conversation may as likely be either "that new man Reagan" and how he might even be good for the country, or how one can keep his car from being stolen...
Dismissing the president's decontrol and deregulation plans as misleading, Tsongas zeroes in on his favorite topic--the Kemp-Roth tax cut proposals. Tsongas has only scorn for the 30-per-cent three-year reduction plan; he calls it "very inflationary and economically unjust." He adds that in Washington "everyone knows that Kemp-Roth is a dog, and they're going to kill it in the Congress." What really makes the 39-year-old first-term senator angry is that in the short run, Reagan "can say he was for it without suffering any of the political ramifications...
...word pronounced with extreme nasal intonation--intentional? I have no idea) of college men's chorouses. It's usually the unrelieved round of drinking songs and love songs and songs about girls and, well let's face it, sex. (minor laughter) This next song is going to cover a topic that is often neglected by groups of our kind; and that is (pause) horticulture...
That night, one of my closest friends sat me down to talk. This itself was strange, because we usually talked quite naturally on any subject. The situation became more peculiar as I watched him. I had never seen him so nervous. He couldn't stick to one topic of conversation. Finally, after a very long and pained introduction, he told me he was gay. He had known this throughout our friendship...
...year moratorium on all new federal decrees concerning health, safety and the environment. Among professional economists, Weidenbaum is best known for his work on the economic effects of defense spending, and his studies on the cost of Government regulation, which were among the first ever done on that topic...