Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in history's spotlight, between his outraged people and their Algerian neighbors, and the bumbling, unpredictable government of France's Fourth Republic: Habib Bourguiba, first President of the new Republic of Tunisia...
Into the Wastebasket. Such successes have thrust Getty into the public spotlight-and he is not sure he likes the glare. His wealth attracts about 1,000 letters a week from people who want money. Getty reads most of the letters himself, throws them into the wastebasket. The only recorded instance in which Paul Getty has ever loosened his purse strings was the donation of $500,000 worth of art from his collection (now housed in a special museum wing of his 64-acre seaside ranch at Malibu, Calif.) to the Los Angeles County Museum. Everyone automatically assumed there...
...shopped for style as well. While G.M. slipped back from 51.5% to 44.4% of the auto market, Chrysler's jet-finned new models jumped from 15.4% to 19% of the market, and Ford's crisp styling apparently nudged it ahead of Chewy into the No. 1 sales spotlight for the first time since...
...radio stations that reported success with a similar method: short announcements slipped quietly into natural pauses or over a musical background. Not really subliminal, they are consciously perceptible-but just barely. KLTI in Longview, Texas calls these commercials "Radio Active Iso-Spots," explains: "They get in underneath and spotlight attention, just like an isotope in medicine...
...affairs," said Kennan. "is not to be traversed in any giant strides." The way to lessen tension between Russia and the West is to break the conflicts down into specific problems and treat each one separately. "For this, it is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...