Word: limelight
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...company was in its conceptual stages when Godelia was thrown into the limelight last week in a widely circulated blog entry revealing that Godelia was, in fact, 34 years old, was not a registered student, and had been accused a decade ago of breaking into apartments at night and, at least once, ejaculating onto a sleeping woman’s face...
...preference for John McCain in 2008-in the hope that McCain would select Joe as his vice-presidential running mate. Although a Lieberman crossover would turn control of the Senate back to the Republicans, a 2008 gain in the Senate by the Dems would force him out of the limelight he so assiduously craves. The reality is that most people see through his machinations. He might consider a crash course in chess before it's checkmate for his political influence. Fred Plemenos Lexington, Massachusetts...
...preference for John McCain in 2008 - in the hope that McCain would select Joe as his vice-presidential running mate. Although a Lieberman crossover would turn control of the Senate back to the Republicans, a 2008 gain in the Senate by the Dems would force him out of the limelight he so assiduously craves. The reality is that most people see through his machinations. He might consider a crash course in chess before it's checkmate for his political influence. Fred Plemenos, Lexington, Massachusetts...
...Bush war cabinet. During Bush's first term, the views of the U.S.'s diplomatic corps were largely dismissed by neoconservatives allied with Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But as the Iraq war drags on and its chief advocates fade, the diplomats are stealing some late-game limelight. That's due in large part to Rice, who has consolidated her authority over the Administration's foreign policy and made course corrections that have resulted in a denuclearization pact with North Korea, a new push in the Middle East and tentative moves toward negotiating with Iran and Syria about...
...look back, earning Donato’s confidence.Tobe, meanwhile, was rarely called upon, forced to rely on practices to get ice time. And though he had been playing hockey for 17 years, he finally decided he had to explore other options.But the prospect of returning to the limelight never escaped his attention.“As I stopped playing a little bit and didn’t get as many chances, I felt that it was probably in my best interests to at least look at job opportunities or apply to graduate schools,” he explains...