Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond this, many of the markings in books don't make any sense at all. Users of highlighter pens often resort to the "roadblock method"--just as police road-blocks stop every fifth car, these people highlight every fifth sentence. "I have never forgotten it. They charged thirty-five cents," read a highlit sentence in one book. I hope someone remembered that one for an exam...
...turned out, the Yale meet was the highlight of the season. Harvard never equalled themselves. They went on the loose against Northeastern and Boston University in the Greater Boston Championships, and they placed a disappointing sixth in the Heptagonals...
...term caused the American-Chinese relationship to sink to its lowest level in a decade. Yet when Reagan steps off Air Force One in Peking this week, it will not only mark the first time that he has ever set foot on Communist soil. The visit will highlight one of the Administration's rare foreign policy successes. Said White House Aide Michael Deaver: "This is Ronald Reagan's most important foreign trip...
...football, the Harvard, Yale game is the highlight of the season, with either team's contest against Princeton usually running a close second...
NASA'S carefully detailed script for the mission was showy but simple. Its highlight was to be a free-floating walk in space to retrieve the ailing Solar Maximum Mission satellite (Solar Max). Sent aloft to monitor the sun's activity, Max broke down three years ago, after only ten months in orbit. Challenger's mission last week was to stop the rotation of Max, use the spacecraft's 50-ft. remote-controlled arm to lift the satellite into the ship's cargo bay, and set it back in orbit after repairs were made...