Word: spotlight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another witness who can expect an uncomfortable turn in the spotlight this week is Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, whose role in directing American assistance to the contras was spelled out by Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from July 1985 to January 1987. Tambs repeated what he had previously told the Tower commission: North had asked him to open a southern front against Nicaragua's Sandinistas. The orders came from a three- man "restricted interagency group," chaired by Abrams, that included North and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American task force...
...national debate over electoral reform by declaring that no changes in the current system of choosing a chief executive would be contemplated until after the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, which are to be held in Seoul. To continue arguing about the matter while South Korea stands in the spotlight of world attention, said Chun, would "deepen our internal schisms and dissipate national resources...
...remove their missiles pointed at Western Europe, NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. A President with a cowboy fixation got tough with the evil empire. His PR men changed the plan's name. "Two track" became "Zero Option," and the quiche-eater was pushed out of the spotlight...
...point even more missiles at Moscow. The new Soviet king of the hill, Mike, got a sensational new idea. He offered to remove the missiles pointed at Western Europe if NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. Mike's PR men pushed the cowboy out of the spotlight and took the credit...
Later, in April, scientists at Stanford and IBM announced that they had made thin films of the new substances, important for computer applications. The spotlight then shifted to IBM Researchers Robert Laibowitz and Roger Koch, who reported that they had made their own thin film into a working gadget called a SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device). Such tools are already used in low-temperature versions to measure extremely faint magnetic fields. They are also employed by physicists in the search for elusive gravity waves and magnetic monopoles, predicted by some theories but not yet observed. Medical researchers use SQUIDs...