Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets want to concentrate on the nuclear weapons issue, while the Reagan administration sees arms control as an important topic but not one that should dominate the next Reagan-Gorbachev meeting...
...discussion demonstrated that important factions of the Democratic Party are now willing to confront the topic of the underclass and think it could work to their political advantage. "If we approach the social question correctly," Cuomo noted, "we will seize the opportunity Reagan has given us." A common theme was that the Democrats must seek effective ways to improve the plight of the poor while not clinging to expensive programs that have not proved helpful. "What worked in 1966 may not work in 1986," said Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, a black who chairs the House Budget Committee. "Saying that...
Last winter, looking ahead to the major stories of 1986, TIME's Washington bureau singled out a very thorny topic: the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative. SDI is better known, of course, as Star Wars, President Reagan's futuristic plan for a missile-defense shield that would render nuclear weapons obsolete. "It had already established itself as the most contentious issue on the Soviet-American agenda," says Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who proposed a conference on the SDI controversy that would produce a "coherent, focused and expert debate for the benefit of correspondents and editors and, through a special report...
...give much time or thought to grading papers and exams. A recent 11-page paper I wrote for Albert Craig and Henry Rosovsky's course on Japan was returned weeks later with no comments except this one line at the end: "You did a good job with a complex topic." Because our section leader spoke little English, I and other students in the section found ourselves forced to simplify our language and arguments to avoid confusing our grader...
Stephenson, who was president of the Harvard Debating Council in 1936, also remembers the more modest role he played in that celebration. He debated by radio with the president of the Cambridge Union as part of those earlier festivities. The topic of that transatlantic competition...