Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brophy's wife or the hospital? Should the sanctity of human life override suffering, indignity, even a patient's own wishes? Such agonizing dilemmas were at the heart of two days of discussions in Boston last week by 70 health administrators and scholars from 28 states and Canada. Their topic: the morality of removing feeding tubes. The meeting's sponsor was the Catholic Health Association, whose membership includes 615 hospitals that admit 6 million patients a year and 267 nursing homes that care for 74,000 aged patients...
...never have a topic [when I speak]. It will be all off the top of my head," King said yesterday from his hotel in San Francisco, where he is addressing a broadcasters convention...
Another long-time listener, Jeremy Shapiro '89, said that he liked Open Phone America--the segment of the show during which listeners call in with questions on almost any topic--because "he's so obnoxious to the people who call...
Recently, though, Harvard students have been taking one aspect of the dining hall system more seriously. As more and more schools convert to and utilize the advantages of variable meal plans, transferable credits and point systems, Harvard's mandatory 21-meal board contract has become a frequent topic of dinner discussion...
...left equally in the dark about Markham and Bayliss, by far the movie's most interesting characters. Ultimately, the picture disappoints not because it is bad or stupid, but because it is dull. With such a timely and important topic, it's unfortunate that Defense of the Realm is plagued by the humorless heavy-handedness that so often mars movies dealing with contemporary politics...