Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University's affirmative action plan for hiring women and minorities first returned to the spotlight this week when the Department of Health. Education and Welfare ordered the Graduate School of Design to end discrimination in its faculty hiring practices...
Although Drinan was unopposed in the primary, he had workers at every poll on Tuesday and held a mass rally on primary night in an obvious effort to gear up his campaign for the tough November night. Drinan managed to keep himself in the public spotlight all summer as he served as the vocal leader of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic National Convention...
Haig is regarded as a model of calm toughness. He organizes Kissinger's paper work, sometimes stands in for him at presidential meetings, and often serves as the butt of Kissinger's jokes. But he carefully avoids the spotlight. In his present job, Haig has made eight trips to Viet Nam, where he served with the 1st Infantry Division (and won a Distinguished Service Cross) in 1966-67. Kissinger calls him "one of the outstanding military men I've met," and the President is known to have favored him for both his dedication and loyalty, and because...
...billed as Two Generations of Brubeck. But no gap is visible or audible. The Brubecks are in fact one of the best pop music shows on the road. Their program is essentially a series of casual entrances and exits in which each Brubeck has his moment alone in the spotlight, then mixes it up with the others. That includes Poppa Dave, who could not stand it on the sidelines and now fronts a svelte replica of the old Dave Brubeck Quartet...
...fruit growers about his support of Cesar Chavez, the farm-labor leader who endorsed McGovern last week. "I'm not in a position to say every single aspect of Chavez's program is 100% right," he ventured. "I supported him because I thought he turned the public spotlight on the plight of the farm workers." One of the newsmen following McGovern quipped: "Yesterday we came to praise Cesar. Today we came to bury...