Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kissed the papal ring and bowed his head. A devout Catholic who tries to attend Mass daily, Walesa at first resisted when the Pope tried to lift him from his knees. John Paul then ushered the union leader into the library for a half-hour private chat. One presumed topic of their conversation: how to keep the itchier members of Walesa's organization from touching off a Soviet invasion...
...might ask not whether Wilson is responsible for "defending his theories against distortion and misuse" but whether he is responsible for the actual manipulation and implications of his ideas. This is an important topic but an irresolvable one. Wilson cannot possibly bear the responsibility for how various minds crank perverse motives out of sociobiology. Mr. Nobel had little notion of the ways people would exploit his invention, dynamite...
...usual graduate-school scenario: three university professors facing down one anxious scholar during the dread oral exam on some deservedly obscure topic. Who cared? The President of Egypt, for one. And if Anwar Sadat figured the rest of his country should also take an interest, who was going to argue? Thus when First Lady Jehan Sadat, 47, defended her master's thesis (on the influence of English Romantic Poet Shelley on Arabic literature), the entire 2¼ hours were presented on national TV. At the end of the program, Anwar's angel got an A. Predictably, sniped some...
Interest rates used to be a topic confined to the annual meeting of the gnomes of Zurich or to hushed discussions by corporate treasurers. Now everybody is talking and worrying about them. "I don't ever remember feeling so tense over the prime rate," says Ellen Greenfield, 27, a reporter for Women 's Wear Daily, the trade publication of the garment industry. "I follow it daily...
Each squad will make an oral presentation and submit a written treatise on the topic. The presentations, which will be judged separately, will assess the attitudes of business and government towards each other and explore possible changes in the rights and responsibilities of each. Also included will be an evaluation of the effectiveness of business and government in fulfilling their responsibilities and specific recommendations for promoting better relations between the two sectors...