Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his bitter defeat on medicare, he intends to use it to highlight the whole package of domestic legislation that he wants. He has already worked out a tentative schedule to appear in about 15 states, and beneath his easy and businesslike manner his aides sense a new and expectant mood of political combat. In characteristic Kennedy fashion, he poor-mouths the chance of picking up a few extra Democratic seats in Congress in the process...
Another political highlight project Washington - caught the imagination of the entire undergraduate body for a few days near the end of the new term's first month. The picketing was to take place over a weekend, and when it snowed 18 inches on Friday, skeptics wrote the Project off as a dead letter. The demonstrators made the trip to Washington only to find a dismal welcome--besides the weather, many Capital officials were unsympathetic. But Project Washington was far from finished--student leaders rallied the group and staged one of the city's biggest and best-organized political demonstrations...
...highlight more recent aspects of the growing University today, Harvard will offer special symposia and will hold open house in buildings constructed under the Program for Harvard College. Guided tours will introduce to alumni these new buildings...
...news on the Big Board did not mean that the U.S. economy was in bad trouble. But it did highlight a dilemma for the economy and the Kennedy Administration. As a keystone of his Administration, President Kennedy promised to do two things: increase economic growth and check inflation. The trouble is that while both aims are laudable in theory, they do not necessarily go together. In trying to achieve both of them at the same time, and in using methods that have alarmed businessmen, the President may have thrust himself into an economic...
...Give Us Your Help." The highlight of the Administration drive came when President Kennedy addressed 20,000 people-most of them elderly-at a Madison Square Garden rally. Speaking over all three major TV networks (he was granted free time on the absurd theory that his speech was nonpolitical), the President charged the A.M.A. with failure to understand the King-Anderson bill, even went so far as to equate opposition to the bill with opposition to social security. Asked he of his audience: "Come and give us your help...