Word: topically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book, you mention the idea that everything in life is either taken or traded, that nothing exists outside of those two categories. You said you were fascinated with this topic and tried to find something that didn't fit in either category. Did you ever find anything? That's an idea from [Canadian writer and activist] Jane Jacobs. The one that I propose that doesn't [fit] is a pawnshop, because you can pledge an item and then redeem it later. Sometimes it's taking, and sometimes it's trading. It's the shifting, ambiguous nature of pawnshoppery...
...novels plunge fearlessly into arcane scientific realms where lesser writers would fear to tread - nanotechnology in Prey, genetics in Next. He courted controversy ardently: he wrote about sexual harassment in Disclosure and the expanding Japanese economic hegemony in Rising Sun (back in 1992 when that was an edgy topic). Most infamously he attacked the theory of global warming in State of Fear...
This is not the first time the Republicans have relied upon robo-calls to spur voters to the polls. In 2000, a rallying cry was Elian Gonzalez, the boy who got sent back to Cuba with his father. Elian was a hot-button topic with Cuban Americans who fought to keep the boy with relatives in Miami, and Republicans emphasized his case in robo-calls. "It's a predictable tactic," Coffey says. "Yes, there's some effectiveness. Whether it's too little, too late, I don't know...
...Better her vote than my morals,” Motley responded, smiling. He suggested that we change the topic...
...discovered the consequences of CFL use when she met with her professor for Engineering Sciences 164: “Aqueous and Environmental Chemistry.” Chow and Steven C. Wofsy, professor of atmospheric and environmental studies, initially discussed her group project on the toxicity of mercury, before the topic turned to the harm CFL bulbs can cause if used or disposed improperly...