Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hours after President Clintonsigned the budget bill into law yesterday, ending the 105th Congressional session and effectively halting debate on pending hate crime legislation, members of the College community gathered to remember Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose murder put that legislation in the spotlight...
Though the conflict in Kosovo only recently came into the national spotlight, some Harvard professors have been studying the situation for a long time...
Ultimately, Random House wins no matter what, because it can spin any reaction it gets in order to keep the novels in the spotlight and on the shelves. The company even offers certain deprecating comments on its Web site as evidence of all the controversy it has sparked. Though the New York Times says that "the streets will be littered with lists like this when the millennium comes, and when the millennium goes they will be swept into piles and forgotten," others put a more positive angle on the spats sparked by the list. Alain de Botton says, quite poetically...
...Head of the Charles pushes the sport of rowing from relative anonymity to the spotlight for one short weekend and deservedly so. While the event's commercial nature is in some ways at odds with the spirit of amateurism and selflessness that pervades the discipline, it's only right that rowers get their day in the sun and get to show us the fruit of their exertions. Ultimately, they reveal to us some of the life lessons taught not only by their trade but also by their own example. We are privileged to have them among...
...devote much stage time to more obscure songs, often glossing over crowd requests to play only the singles that received radio play. Two of the most powerful moments occurred when they deviated from the typhoon of pop hits. With just an acoustic guitar, mournful vocals and a single spotlight, Griffin silenced the crowd with a beautiful, delicate rendition of "Porcelain." Later, Griffin stopped the concert in order to playfully explain the lyrics of "Happy Day, MeMe", which was inspired by the joy he felt waking up to the still-sleeping face of a loved...