Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shadow of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a buck with a velvet rack picks his way across a steep hillside, followed by three does. Hearing a noise, the deer turn toward a meadow filled with oak trees and sunflowers that glisten like gold coins. A band of backpacking Boy Scouts stare wide-eyed at this moment of natural theater...
...oracle herself resides in a modest subdivision of Stillwater, Minn., & replete with neat lawns and American flags. Beattie (that's Beet-y) sits in the sun in a cafe along the St. Croix River with tall pines casting a shadow on the water and her 42-ft. houseboat, Nightsong, floating placidly down the way. In her calm, girlish voice, she orders decaffeinated coffee before a light lunch ("I let go of caffeine this year"). Beattie leads a pure, "land-o'-lakes" life and has a sense of, well, serenity. This wasn't always so. The sleeves of her soft blouse...
Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson won his first elective office by becoming the district's "shadow" Senator, providing him with a high-profile platform from which to launch another presidential run. The unsalaried job, which carries no voting privileges, will be used to lobby for statehood. Civil rights activist and law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton won the Delegate seat to the House, also a nonvoting post...
Because of this, he said, decisions had been taking place "in the shadow of a veto," limiting the community's power...
This squeeze on families bodes ill for children. Twelve million youngsters have no medical coverage; 5 million teeter on the edge of homelessness. Because of poor prenatal care, a baby born in the shadow of the White House is now more likely to die in the first year of life than a baby born in Costa Rica...