Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...funds often explicitly directed into financial-aid coffers. Congress and at least two states are looking into these inducements, which New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo calls "kickbacks"--a label that seems a tad unfair if the money helps cash-strapped students rather than enrich officials. But with the spotlight now on student loans, critics are clamoring to reform what has become an $85 billion industry...
...wearied of the nonsense of the spotlight but never of football's simple joys. Losing well was a knack he never mastered, and he hated himself when he played poorly. At those times, or when injury stopped him surfing for a while, he could sulk with the best of them. Life after football will test him. He is gone before he was ready, leaving behind a game that will be the lesser for his absence...
...elements of “Lucie Cabrol” are lovely. The lighting, designed by Joshua Randall, casts much of the play in a dimly-lit zone, with some nice effects (the red light spilling from a wood stove, for example) that occasionally verge into gimmickry (the coffin-shaped spotlight that Lucie lies in, for example...
...immediately turned on his extremely high wattage flashlight and aimed it at the driver signaling him to stop. He says a soldier in the other Humvee also flashed a green laser pointer at the driver. But, according to Lozano, the car did not reduce its speed. Lozano says his spotlight signal had proven effective in either stopping or turning around all other vehicles that night. When the vehicle passed the warning line and did not stop, Lozano says the soldiers at the checkpoint interpreted this as a hostile act by an unknown intruder. "Hey, this vehicle is coming too fast...
...driver wasn't going to stop. "It actually looked like he was speeding up a little. We all thought the same thing. We were all on the same page as to what had to be done," says Lozano. "Everyone knows, including the Iraqis, that when they see that spotlight, they stop, especially on Route Irish. They slam on the brakes immediately and you can hear the tires screeching and everything." He says that Iraqi car drivers have become so reactive to the warning signs that they have collided into each other in the past when the car in front suddenly...