Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare-to-work grants to states, stuffed four appearances into a day's swing through New Hampshire, and paid a call on his next-door neighbor, the British embassy, to sign its condolence book for Princess Diana. He also managed a hike in Montana's Glacier National Park to highlight a talk about global warming--or was that just the heat he was feeling as the yearlong Democratic campaign-finance scandal moved squarely...
...substance--Brooks was out merely to entertain, not to create great music. And most people were so far from the stage that Brooks was just a black speck in a cowboy hat. Hometown-hero Billy Joel, a special guest on a few songs, got a larger ovation. The highlight of the show came at the end, after the HBO telecast was over, when Brooks and Joel came out for an encore of Joel's You May Be Right. Brooks is better when he's not trying to sell you something and the cameras...
...will be a "three-pronged initiative," consisting of a research program led by Baroness Shirley Williams stemming from this year's Women's Leadership Initiative conference; a Women and Public Policy program in which Mansbridge will work with current U.S. ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt and KSG professors to highlight gender perspectives on public policy; and a Council on World Women Leaders headed by Laura Liswood...
...hold on to / most of the thins I used to say to you / most of the ways I knew around the local roads / are disappearing daily." In Cubs in Five, a sarcastically hopeful song, John vows not to fall in love again until a convergence of unlikely events, the highlight of which is a World Series victory for the Chicago baseball team...
...subject of climate change. Instead, in his closing speech at the U.N., Clinton almost plaintively said he could not do anything until Americans and the Congress were convinced that climate change was "real and imminent." To that end, he has promised to hold a conference later this year to highlight the problem. Perhaps then we will see whether he is willing to be as forceful on the issue of greenhouse gases as he was last week on the issue of smog...