Word: spotlight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once again, Washington's attempts to draw the line against insurgency in tiny El Salvador were being tugged into the spotlight. The F.D.R. and F.M.L.N. leaders said that they had not yet received a formal response from the Salvadoran government, whose efforts to put down the guerrillas have been backed by about $122.4 million in U.S. military aid in the past three years. But in the capital of San Salvador, there was an immediate reaction. Said Right-Wing Leader Roberto d'Aubuisson, who is president of the Constituent Assembly: "We will permit no dialogue or negotiation with...
Smith is ready and willing to focus on the numbers and fully aware of their contentious nature. Fortunately, he seems oblivious to the spotlight focused upon...
This outside scrutiny often transforms complex problems into simple, seething controversy--good copy, as it's known in the business. But the media spotlight also gives Harvard a chance to do a little public relations for itself, and in a recent tiff over a Black students' guide to colleges, University Hall wasted just such an opportunity...
...make matters worst for Napolitano, her lagal battle challenging Princeton disciplinary procedures propelled her cheating scandal into the national spotlight, where she was portrayed unsympathetically. Princeton students now refer to the former senior as "Gabby" Napolitano herself recently told The Princetonian that "the majority of the Princeton community has ostracized...
PEOPLE IN THE CLASS still talk about Catherine Oxenberg every now and then, but she disappeared from the spotlight back in the fall of 1979 once classes got serious. I, for one, have enjoyed the old pangs stirred up by Catherine's reemergence, not to mention the news that she was neither murdered nor the figment of someone's imagination...