Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret calamity first began to come into the spotlight in 1976, with the appearance of an article by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet biologist now living in London. In it, he claimed that the Soviets had carelessly stored radioactive wastes in shallow burial facilities. As the debris accumulated, he wrote, radioactive decay caused the material to overheat and, finally, to erupt like a volcano. The first response to this assertion was pronounced skepticism, even among Western experts. The CIA said there had been nothing but a minor accident, and the chairman of Britain's Atomic Energy Authority dismissed the theory...
Just about the only time the accounting profession traditionally steps into the spotlight is around April 15 or when representatives of Price Waterhouse, which tallies the Academy Awards votes, put in their annual appearance at the Oscar presentations. But as this year's income tax deadline loomed, accountants were getting much more than their historic share of publicity, and a lot of it was bad. After a spectacular string of corporate failures and financial scandals in recent years, the industry that is supposed to audit company books and sniff out chicanery is under pressure from all directions...
...whose final ruthlessness was like a congealed residue of Cagney's youthful pugnacity. Cagney was rediscovered and in the years that followed treated to a flood of public affection, tributes and honors. Though age had undone his hoofer's dexterity, he made a last proud turn in the Hollywood spotlight...
...spotlight then shifted to Martin, whose term as vice chairman was to expire next week. Instead of deciding to seek reappointment, Martin bowed out in a brief press conference. A former mortgage-insurance-company executive, he said he wanted to return to private business. But some Fed watchers suspected that Martin left because his chances of getting the chairman's job had faded...
Quickly, though, the ordinance served to spotlight the area's long-standing racial divide. Civil rights leaders saw it as a clumsy move to keep out blacks from Detroit. In retaliation, the N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow...