Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cool Hart grew warmer in the spotlight. He dropped his diffidence and reached into crowds. On the stump he was clear and forceful. "Your sons shouldn't be sent to Central America to serve as bodyguards for some dictator," he declared at a Women for Hart rally in Concord. His oft repeated pitch that he represents a "new generation" of leadership found a receptive audience. New Hampshire's growing population of Yuppies (Young Urban Professionals) made a natural constituency: exit polls later showed that Hart won the under-40 vote by almost 3 to 1. Some 40% said...
...investigation of the facilities has come into the spotlight in the wake of public charges of racism in the department. A group of Black parents last month claimed that police officers harassed their children in picking them up for allegedly assaulting a bicycle rider...
MINORITY GROUPS at Harvard usually get attention when they are knee-deep in some sort of controversy. Protests for a Third World Center and most recently, demands to put minority activities on the Freshman Calendar have focused the campus spotlight on minority organizations...
Hart, who managed McGovern's campaign that year, will now be thrust into the media spotlight and may be able to bolster an organization that is weak in many important primary states, analysts speculated last night...
...Moscow's House of Trade Unions. His daughter Irina, married to an actor from Moscow's Taganka Theater, remained discreetly out of the public eye. Andropov's son Igor was a ranking member of the Soviet delegation to the Stockholm disarmament conference but also avoided the spotlight...