Word: spotlighting
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Kimberly M. Sanchez '03 said she believes continued protests are the best way to keep the Vieques issue in the public spotlight...
...mutiny within his own ranks over sharing the reins of government with the Sinn Fein while their IRA allies still have access to arms. So, while the last episode had Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams desperately trying to coax a disarmament gesture out of his hard men, the dramatic spotlight now shifts to Trimble's efforts to placate his own skeptics...
...spotlight shone on Sahadi during the post position draw for the Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling...
Both candidates were the children of famous politicians and grew up in the public spotlight, eventually attending Ivy League universities and breaking into their fathers' profession at a later stage in life...
...They were in the spotlight, under a lot of pressure, and a lot of eyes were on them," he adds. "There was not enough emphasis placed on the human elements...