Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aspiring international lawyer will never regret his decision to fly to the City last Friday to run the race that threw this unknown translator of Korean languages into the limelight of international sports...
...fantastic," says White House Chief of Staff James Baker. So far, Shultz has also avoided falling victim to the inbuilt institutional rivalry with William Clark, the National Security Adviser. Clark admires Shultz's tendency to trust Reagan's instincts in foreign affairs and allow the President the limelight...
Sheik Mohammad Al Fassi, 27, a Saudi Arabian princeling who has lived in the U.S. for four years, keeps stumbling into the limelight. When he Lived in Beverly Hills, Calif., he had the nude statuary outside his mansion painted in rather vivid flesh tones; the mansion was later gutted by fire. Then he dropped a few million here (some of it to shed two troublesome wives) and a few million there (to resettle in Florida). Last week the sheik's profligacy earned him a new bit of screwball notoriety. The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., claimed that Fassi...
...secretive construction giant enters the limelight...
Despite this distinction, Schools has managed to keep a low profile within the Harvard community. Some might consider it for misfortune to pilot both the volleyball and softball team--two of the teasing least publicized squads--but Schoofs has always been content to remain away from the limelight...