Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much more important, the University of California has divested of its $4 billion of South Africa-related holdings and taken the nationwide limelight for its actions. A similar move by Harvard now would not make so many waves...
...President. Unlike Henry Kissinger under Nixon and Ford and, to a slightly lesser degree, Zbigniew Brzezinski under Carter, Poindexter does not consider himself a virtual foreign-policy czar. He has neither the desire nor the personality to pressure other high officials into agreement. Instead, by avoiding the limelight, Poindexter believes he can effectively work out compromises among his large-ego clients...
...Statue of Liberty around the globe. "Those well-worn phrases have never lost their potency and charm," insists Malone, though at the time they were first introduced, Jefferson was still miffed that his original text had been edited by the Continental Congress. Jefferson was not even in the limelight. He was poking around Philadelphia, buying a thermometer and seven pairs of ladies' gloves before going home to Monticello. Years later, he said his intention had been "to place before mankind the common sense of the subject." Jefferson, as much as any man of his time, believes Malone, had already focused...
...deprived of the vivid pictures and descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots, South Africa is plotting to gain time out of the limelight to lick its wounds and quell internal and external dissent...
When Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies finds the limelight, it's usually the gentle glow of scholarly achievement. For a while last spring, however, the Center found itself the unaccustomed subject of seering international scrutiny...