Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impasse over trade talks prevented any searching discussion of what had been expected to be another major topic at the summit: how to keep an American economic slowdown from triggering world recession. That will require faster growth in other countries, and some gingerly efforts are under way to promote it, but there was little analysis in Bonn of whether those efforts are adequate. At the formal sessions and in the final communique, the heads of government merely described the policies they are already following and pledged themselves to such unexceptionable goals as fighting inflation and creating jobs. Such cascades...
...meetings between the participants. Reagan fared reasonably well during these talks. The leaders produced a statement applauding the "positive proposals" of the U.S. in the Geneva arms-control talks with the Soviet Union. They also pledged to study new ways to crack down on international traffic in narcotics. That topic arose unexpectedly at dinner Thursday night when Thatcher politely asked the American President about the progress of Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign; the question touched off an animated discussion in which all seven heads of government joined...
THERE IS CERTAINLY enough blame to go around for Thursday's incident. The Conservative Club, despite its right to hold a closed-door meeting on any topic it chooses, was blatantly provocative in doing so Thursday, especially in light of the recent escalation of divestment activism. The fact that the group failed to publicize the event only makes its actions more questionable...
...separate but timely topic, what are your thoughts about the various bids to take over...
...novel crosscuts between Braithwaite's monologues and the fruit of his scholarly pursuits. "The Flaubert Bestiary" traces various animal metaphors and ancedotes in Flaubert's correspondence. "Emma Bovary's Eyes" uses that topic as a jumping-off point for a spirited polemic against various schools of Flaubert criticism. "Louise Colet's Version" is an imaginary reconstruction of the opinions of Louise Colet, to whom Flaubert wrote his greatest love letters, but whose replies are unfortunately lost forever. In "Braithwalie's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas," he indulges in a latter-day variant of Flaubert's favorite sport, bourgeois-bashing...