Word: topically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when you hit the floor.” Keys and Mayer present a simple and hopeful perspective on the bad times in life: They won’t get you down if you don’t let them. But what would an Alicia Keys album be without the topic of still-true love? In the album’s first single, “No One,” which has already claimed the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, Keys sings, “You and me together / Through the days and nights / I don?...
...something they’ve never seen anywhere else, but they also don’t want something too ephemeral,” Cannon says. “In the past you didn’t need a newspeg. However, it was always about what was happening and a topic in civil discourse...
...write a novel, how do you pick your topic? Joey O'Donnell, SOUTHBURY, CONN., U.S. For novels, I start from an image that strikes me, without knowing what will happen around that image. In each novel, it took me six to eight years to find out the answer. For The Name of the Rose, the image was of a monk poisoned while reading a book. I was fascinated by the idea...
...mainstream press has avoided the topic because of a government directive ordering media to maintain "peace and harmony" by blacking out debate over Islam's role in the state. The censorship disappoints journalists who were pleased when Abdullah initially allowed for more freedom of expression than predecessor Mahathir. In October, Malaysia received its worst-ever ranking in the worldwide press-freedom index compiled by watchdog Reporters Without Borders, falling by 32 places to No. 124. The drop was due, in part, to two separate cases in which a blogger and a publisher of an online newspaper were both pulled...
...doesn't seem so ridiculous to poor countries like Indonesia, where leaders are torn between the need to develop the country's natural resources and increasing international pressure to preserve remaining forests. This dilemma is expected to be a hot topic this month at a U.N.-led conference on climate change in Bali, where representatives from 189 nations are gathering to negotiate a set of environmental rules to succeed the Kyoto protocols, the main provisions of which expire...