Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violations, including campaign finance mistakes, if he acts like a President and actually accomplishes things that matter to them," says TIME's Jef McAllister. Betting on that assumption, President Clinton is continuing what has been a highly successful strategy of unveiling small initiatives to take the news spotlight away from campaign finance investigations. Friday's example: A call for Congress to ratify the chemical weapons accord and grant him a "fast-track" negotiating authority to expand free trade to more Latin American countries. Up next, Clinton will announce on his Saturday morning radio show that he is extending...
American politics, like every other branch of show business, loves the myth of the heroic understudy--the unknown who coolly takes the stage when the headliner can't. Now that the spotlight is on Tenet, a bipartisan chorus is calling him the perfect man for the role of CIA director. It's a monstrous job. Three directors in the past six years have tried to drag America's $30-billion-a-year intelligence empire into the post-cold war era as ugly disclosures--especially the unmasking of traitors Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson--made the agency seem an unreliable relic...
Although the gregarious Weld made every effort to maintain the spotlight, Kerry got a few licks in with a lengthy piece of poetry which made light of the governor's international trade priorities...
...recent controversy over new HIV-management drugs has put physicians--and their control over prescriptions--in the spotlight...
When Dr. Ian Wilmut published his recent research in a British scientific journal, he gave the world pause. Every forum from the CNN Web page to the late night FOX show, "Politically Incorrect," was buzzing about Dolly the now famous lamb clone that catapulted Wilmut into the spotlight...