Word: topically
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There's so much interest right now in this end-of-the-world topic. You talked about global warming, but what about terrorism? How do you see that figuring...
None of this will have much impact, though, on long-run big issues like U.S. competitiveness, the state of the middle class, etc. For example, if the world economy is able to shrug off a U.S. downturn--a big topic of debate among economists at the moment--it would be a sign that America's global role has been permanently downgraded. But it won't be the doing of the recession, which is, remember, just a passing phenomenon...
...crack-up happening already? Far-fetched as it would have seemed a month ago, the seeds of self-destruction are being planted in the war of coded words about race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The bickering has exploded in the space of a week into Topic A in the Democratic race, supplanting for the moment the war and the economy and health care - and shows no sign of a quick resolution...
...Faust’s bibliography, which lists a book on the plight of Confederate intellectuals next to a biography of a plantation owner who molested his teenage nieces, reveals a career spent jumping from topic to topic...
...civic-mindedness extended to his criticism of what he saw as Harvard’s “money culture.” He decried tuition hikes at universities and the multimillion-dollar salaries of Harvard’s endowment managers, writing four op-eds on the topic in The Crimson over the past four years...