Word: highlighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, amassing a personal fortune. Goode strategists hope that Egan and the independent candidate, Thomas Leonard, a former city controller and Democrat, will split the vote of disaffected whites. Goode's campaign will continue to avoid direct appeals to black pride and to highlight his impressive credentials. The son of a sharecropper, he holds a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He served as state public utilities chairman and for the past three years held the visible position of managing director of the city...
...highlight of the annual festival was an attempt by more than 600 students to set the record for the world's largest game of I wister, an event in which players must position randoml, chosen hands and feet on colored dots that span a cloth game board...
...they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous, as a way of justifying intervention in the murkier internal affairs of Nicaragua. Equally dismayed, U.S. intelligence officials suggested that the Administration wanted to be seen, as one put it, as "tackling...
...highlight of the stop in Mexico City was an hour long interview with Mexico's President of five months, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who told the group that in trying to combat the current crisis, "we have had to combine the need for stringent, bitter and firm measures with the need to uphold our free democratic system." Excerpts from the President's remarks appear in this week's World section. In addition to meeting the President and presenting him with a glass eagle as a memento of the occasion, the group talked with the ministers...
...skating rink; milking cows or taking a helicopter ride. "The key is to focus on the child and not be the center of attention yourself," explains Jack Bowen of Wednesday's Child on KOCO in Oklahoma City. "I make the child's handicaps very clear but highlight the positive features." In Washington, a ten-year-old boy was riding his bicycle for the cameras of WRC's The Forgotten Children when he fell, cutting his lip and chipping a tooth. The boy's social worker started to run to him, but Reporter-Producer Kelly Burke waved...