Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter Administration. As city council president, Caliguiri automatically became interim mayor; an Italian immigrant's son and home-town boy, he got his first city job, as he puts it, as "a grunt in the parks department." In return for six months in the municipal limelight, Caliguiri promised Democratic bosses that he wouldn't run for a full term. Or so they understood. Shortly after the primary, lifelong Party Regular Caliguiri turned uppity and declared himself an independent candidate. He cannily put the city's money where his mouth was. Between taking over as mayor and easily...
...issues, the GSA launched a campaign this spring to obtain an official College stance opposing discrimination against gays. The proposal made it as far as the Faculty Council; and although that body denied the need for the policy, the GSA's efforts forced gay issues into the administrative limelight...
...foreign policy undertaken by the Crimson. McCarthy had gone out of his way to portray the University as a den of Marxist saboteurs during his years at the helm of the Senate Committee on Investigations. In 1955, already censured for his extraordinary red-baiting campaign, he returned to the limelight temporarily as he testified against accused communists in a Boston trial. Levin attended the trial "just to see what was going on" but recalls that it created only a moderate stir among her Radcliffe friends...
...only obvious change in Boyer's life-style since Genentech's big splash has been the acquisition of a new champagne-beige Porsche Targa (cost: $40,000). He is married and has two children, but since his sudden riches, he likes to keep them out of the limelight. Even his associates at Genentech do not have his new home phone number...
John Seelen, a member of the class of '77, earned the Brooks Bowl--an award presented to the year's outstanding freshman swimmer--before being forced out of the limelight by tendonitits, during his sophomore season...