Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting Boesky held on Thursday at the office of his lawyers in downtown Manhattan. In attendance were some of the 43 limited partners who had anted up $221 million in capital for his major arbitrage fund, Ivan F. Boesky & Co. L.P. Boesky's tribulations had cast an unwelcome spotlight on a heterogeneous group of investors who suddenly found themselves unwitting participants in the scandal. The list of partners included several high- profile companies, such as Rapid-American (investment in Boesky: $5 million) and National Can ($6.5 million). Prominent individuals ranged from Manhattan Investor Jeffry Picower ($28 million) to Martin Peretz...
...abstract agreement is brought to life by personification, by the friendship and ideological comradeship of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Libya is America's enemy, but that enmity glowers as a private hostility between Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi. If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory. If heroism in war is to be honored, a single veteran will stand beside the President on the White House steps...
...combative," says a veteran of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign. Those qualities do not ease one's way through a political body where compromise is highly rewarded. A short fuse is particularly dangerous for a politician who, by virtue of his name alone, will always stand in the spotlight of public attention. But Joe is not particularly worried. "I've played on plenty of football teams," he says. "And I'm used to being...
That brought angry denials from El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Military Commander General Adolfo Blandon. They were embarrassed by the public linkage of Ilopango, where U.S. military advisers are stationed, to the contra flights. Indeed, the spotlight on Ilopango's role as a base for supplying the contras, long an open secret in Central America, brought new problems for Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million...
...since the highly publicized 1972 chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik has Iceland (pop. 240,000) been the focus of such intense superpower attention. The summit, proudly wrote an editorialist in Morgunbladid, the island's largest daily newspaper, "puts Iceland in the spotlight as firmly as it has ever been...