Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently decided that it wanted the spotlight for a change this year, and so bumped the Class Day ceremony to the morning from its traditional afternoon time slot. Moreover, the AHA is pursuing the biggest name possible, with funds and active recruiting, in order to draw attention to its Commencement activities...
...given further substance by the records at other Ivy League schools. In the recent past, three of these institutions have fielded nationally ranked basketball teams, the first of which emerged during the Bill Bradley era at Princeton. Since then, both Columbia and Pennsylvania have ascended into the national spotlight and the Quakers have shown no sign of relinquishing that place...
...newly appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, G. Bradford Cook would seem to be in an uncomfortable spotlight. At 35, he is the youngest man ever to head the agency, he is almost unknown among the Wall Streeters he will regulate-and he has one of the toughest acts in Washington to follow. In a whirlwind 22 months in office, his predecessor, William J. Casey, began more far-reaching reforms of the securities industry than at almost any time in the SEC's 38-year history. To mention only two, brokers who had always charged commissions fixed...
...might seem peevish to object to a production which gives women the spotlight. But in order to give the suffragettes full credit in the historical context, it must be made more clear that their opponents had as much determination as they did--and more power. We should not rejoice merely at the sight of the oppressed besting the oppressors: for the full impact of the struggle for women's rights to hit home, we must understand that the determination which led the women to triumph sprang not simply from their frustration and anger, but from the faith that their position...
...Republican in Delaware County, the right wing bastion situated between Philadelphia and the state of Delaware. The county seat in Media, of F.B.I. fame. The 1971 heist and subsequent publication of secret papers from the one-man bureau office in Media put the town briefly into the national spotlight, for the first time since Carl MacIntyre's radio station there was shut down...