Word: limelight
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...interested. The President had initially resisted creating the post, and many observers had come to conclude it would be largely ceremonial, but Bush repeatedly told his chief of staff Andrew Card that he wanted "a workhorse, not a show horse," for the job. Negroponte, who shuns the limelight and almost never goes public with a dispute, fit the bill perfectly...
...looked the part, from the tailored clothing to the new Gulfstream jet she was soon using. "I told her that rock stars were probably not going to be accepted by a culture that's understated, a bunch of engineers," says Hagberg. "She's a salesperson, and she liked the limelight." But Fiorina kept her distance. Unlike her predecessors, she rarely ate lunch in the cafeteria or mingled with HP staffers. "She rubbed a lot of people the wrong way," says a former HP executive. "HP was data driven. Carly was idea driven. That can be an inspiring kind of leadership...
...yourself roots” he attracts a raw clientele and helps distribute their work without the “frustrations” of the impenetrable commercial industry. Beibin claims that this grassroots approach has successfully brought unusual and socially conscious work into the limelight. He has defied the unwritten rules of success in an entertainment industry built on social contacts and favoritism, he says...
...quite the crammed floor and dark-lit ambience of the Paradise. The Kings hit the scene in 2000 with a self-titled album on Kindercore, but it wasn’t until 2001’s Quiet is the New Loud on Astralwerks that the band entered the critical limelight. That album title was a succinct statement of the band’s philosophy, but Riot on an Empty Street is no closer to riotous than the debut. The band’s two members, Erland Øye and Erik Glambek Bøe, have yet to stray formula...
Just weeks later, Mackinnon got her moment in the limelight. On November 30, PSLM organized a 600-person rally outside the Science Center, “Justice for Janitors.” And Mackinnon...