Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blanchard, the Coast Guard's top press spokesman, who faced a possible court-martial because of sexually offensive jokes he told in a speech. Each victim, of course, had his own psychological makeup and motives. But collectively, they point up the increasing pressure carried by people in the public spotlight, or even in the nearby shadows...
...first choice, even as the prospects of this fantasy ticket grow dimmer. The retired general has no more reason to be thrilled by Dole's performance lately than anyone else. Since taking himself out of the running last November, he has enjoyed his relative obscurity and chafed whenever the spotlight threatened to return. And his wife Alma, who was thought to oppose his candidacy last fall, has turned out to be much more opposed to a political career at this juncture than many of Powell's associates realized at the time...
...courtesy of the more than 8 million jobs created, ahem, in the past 31/2 years. Yet the anxiety rate among workers, still being spit out in huge numbers by a transforming economy, is high enough to give the Democrats a platform. And Clinton will use it to spotlight corporations--Procter & Gamble, Harley-Davidson, Xerox and Starbucks--that the Democrats believe are "doing well by doing good...
This year it is Ilya Ehrenburg's turn in the spotlight. Ehrenburg, probably unknown to most Americans only 30 years after his death, was one of the most famous Soviet writers from the 1930s to the 1960s, serving as the USSR's main cultural emissary to the West under Stalin and Khrushchev. While he wrote dozens of novels and books of verse, he became best known as a correspondent for Izvestia and other Soviet newspapers during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when his fiercely anti-Fascist sentiments made him a favorite of Red Army soldiers...
SENATOR MARK HATFIELD Once: the doghouse for anti-balanced budget vote. Now: the spotlight as budget negotiator...