Word: highlight
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...apparent attempt to combat the rhetoric of President Clinton's conservative opposition, Christopher used the event to highlight the importance of the United States' role as police officer and peacekeeper in a world which, Christopher said, is experiencing "accelerated change...
...highlight of Friday night's concert was undoubtedly the band's performance of Duke Ellington's challenging Far Fast Suite (1966, recorded on RCA-Bluebird). As anyone who has listened to the suite knows, the places referred to both in the titles of the movements and in the music itself are not in the Fat Fast at all, but rather in the Middle East Iran and India-places such as Amad, Istahan, Agra and Delhi. Only the last movement. "Ad Lib on Nippon" is a musical reaction to an East Asian region. Geographical discrepancies aside, the synthesis of Duke Ellington...
Beyond the moral disgrace of covering up this "firing" as a "restructuring," the actions highlight the untenable and problematic relationship whereas PBHA, Inc. is supported by a staff which is controlled by Harvard's administration and therefore unable to advocate openly and honestly on PBHA's behalf...
...movement expected until next week. The White House, for one, is still debating how best to exploit the Administration's growing advantage in the budget talks. The liberal camp, led by adviser George Stephanopoulos, feels that ending the year without a budget deal is the best way to highlight the President's stalwart positions in defense of Medicare, education and the environment. The opposite camp, led by moderate adviser Dick Morris, does not want to see Clinton campaign for re-election having blocked a congressional majority from passing a balanced budget. For Gingrich and his Republicans, however, entering the same...
...before his death, but given his stoic nature and his high threshold of pain--he often skated with shoulder and back miseries--Grinkov might have brushed off the attack as mere discomfort. Indeed, the essence of his genius on the ice was that he sublimated his own presence to highlight the beauty of Gordeeva. "He was totally devoted to her," said JoJo Starbuck, a former U.S. pairs champion who has worked with G and G, "and she would look at him with this I'm-so-in-love-with-you look that would just make your heart sing...