Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulty of diagnosing the ailment was a prominent topic last week at the third international conference on Lyme disease, in New York City. A second worrisome theme: the prevalence of the infection, not only in the northeastern U.S., where it was first diagnosed twelve years ago, but across the country and around the world. Researchers reported that the disease has now been found in at least 32 states and six continents, in part because doctors have become more adept at diagnosing it. Since 1980 there have been nearly 6,000 officially recorded cases in the U.S., but experts...
Cosby's influence is also seen in the show's frequent, but uninsistent, references to black culture. When Son Theo has to read a book for school, chances are it will be Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; when Denise is considering colleges, all-black schools are the topic of discussion. Each script is reviewed by Poussaint to ensure psychological credibility and avoid negative stereotyping. His sanitizing hand can be as heavy as a network censor's. In the original script for one Halloween episode, Vanessa and a friend were to dress up as a witch and Captain Hook. Poussaint vetoed...
...Pope offered no substantive response on women, only endorsing their "equal human dignity." Turning to a topic Weakland had not even mentioned, John Paul urged the bishops to oppose artificial birth control more actively and promote natural methods approved by the church. After the final speaker, Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, discussed the growing shortage of priests and nuns, the Pope stressed that seminarians must be grounded in traditional teaching...
Altogether, if you didn't climb Mt. Everest or save a country, you might be better off avoiding the topic entirely. Perhaps that's why many students who had couch potato internships or jobs that turned out to be as exciting as recopying the yellow pages are reluctant to discuss their experiences. "I don't know how I would feel about the entire world knowing I had a boring summer," says Herman...
...blur of diplomacy left little doubt that Central America will be a major topic of debate in Congress this fall. Indeed, a struggle is already shaping up in the corridors of Washington over the very survival of the contras, the U.S.-supported guerrillas who are fighting the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. As if to launch the battle, President Reagan last week strongly repeated his support for the foundering contra cause, pledging that "we will not abandon our friends in Central America." Secretary of State George Shultz then went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to plead for $270 million...