Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since CDs arrived has the music world been in such a tizzy over technology. Mpeg-3, a longtime standard for digital music on the Net, entered the spotlight this year when MP3.com issued its IPO and MP3 players were declared legal. Now you don't need a recording label to make it big--and industry execs are playing catch...
Meanwhile, five presidential and four vice presidential candidates are now jostling for the spotlight, drafting position papers, preparing for debates and opening themselves to public scrutiny...
...Being the undergraduate student body president of Harvard vaulted Stewart into the national spotlight numerous times. She was quoted in The New York Times more than once and also wrote a short piece for Rolling Stone about the impeachment of President Clinton. In addition, after contacting the people at "Politically Incorrect," she appeared (after her term as president was over) on Bill Maher's show. Stewart plans to attend law school and then serve in a public service or an administrative capacity...
Inadvertently pointing the spotlight on a longtime council issue--the lack of student group space--the administration had double-booked the council's meeting room in Sever Hall...
...with that, we were initiated. Three platoons were leaving for boot camp that night; we moved into the spotlight. The punishment began immediately; some guys had run off to the PX without permission. But that was hardly the point. We had the drill sergeants' attention now, and we were going to get what we had come for, a whipping, with whatever excuse was handy. That one did just fine...