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The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.
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In all, the positive view of Soviet lifelong presented to the public by the official media was rapidly fading, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union were brought into the spotlight.
In all, the very positive view of Soviet life which had long been presented to the public by the official media was being rapidly dismantled, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union were brought into the spotlight.
During his retirement, he was called into the public spotlight one final time in 1967 for the inception of the award, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Gregor Gysi, returning to public life only months after brain surgery and two heart attacks, shared the spotlight with Lafontaine as co-leader of the party's energetic and professional campaign.
Oliver North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua.
Disliking the public spotlight and suffering from weight loss and insomnia, he considered resigning his position but feared a personal humiliation upon returning to Arkansas.
A suicide note of sorts, actually a draft of a resignation letter, was found torn into 27 pieces in his briefcase, a list of complaints specifically including, " The WSJ editors lie without consequence " and lamenting, " I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington.
* November 28 – Roger Vadim's drama film And God Created Woman released in France as Et Dieu … créa la femme, propels Brigitte Bardot into the public spotlight as a " sex kitten ".
In 1976, he briefly reentered the public spotlight and engendered controversy with anti-Zionist statements that called for the United States to withdraw its support for the state of Israel, citing Israel's allegedly bad treatment of Christians, as well as what Gerald Ford publicly criticized as " unsavory remarks about Jews.
The band were thus unable to promote themselves at home, leaving them out of the public spotlight.
The party tried to dissolve itself, but there were not enough members present at the congress to do that, and the party left the public spotlight.
Incorporated as a general law municipality in 1983, Marshall Creek has remained, by virtue of its small borders, relatively out of the public spotlight.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses ; it stimulated the national civil rights movement and launched King into the national spotlight as a leader.
The Chinese government continues to hold public book burnings on unapproved yet popular " spiritual pollution " literature, though critics claim this spotlight on individual titles only helps fuel booksales.
In 1971 the radio stations came under public spotlight once again when prominent U. S. Senator Clifford Case introduced Senate Bill 18, which would remove funding for RFE and RL from the CIA's budget, appropriate $ 30 million to pay for fiscal year 1972 activities, and have the Department of State temporarily oversee the radio stations.
However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Clark's growing fame — her career in France was just beginning — Henderson, reportedly not wanting to end up as " Mr. Petula Clark ", decided to end the relationship.
Critics of president Hosni Mubarak allege that Moussa's appointment to the Office of Secretary-General of the Arab League was motivated by Mubarak's desire to remove him from the public spotlight.
Elders had previously made a number of other statements that put her in the public spotlight, like her quote in January of 1994 " We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
In 1883 he entered a wider public spotlight.
They went on to make a few albums and would return to the public spotlight in roughly four-year intervals, coinciding with each general election in Puerto Rico.
He returned to Iraq in 1979, when Saddam Hussein came to power, and largely stayed out of the public and political spotlight afterwards.
Morosi gradually faded from public attention, but her tumultuous years in the spotlight continued to haunt her.
The Koehl organization is now known as the New Order and operates so far from the public spotlight that few of today's neo-Nazis are aware of its existence or know that it is the linear descendant of Rockwell's original ANP.
In 1801, Cowley retired to Tiverton, where she spent her remaining years staying away from the public spotlight and quietly revising her plays.
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Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.
Their plans fell far short of their desires, and collaboration was then begun with the State of California, which culminated in 1868 with the creation of the public University of California.
After that point, a new copyright had to be filed, and any work that did not have its copyright renewed fell back into the public domain.
The strips, along with most of the rest of McCay's works, fell into the public domain in most of the world on January 1, 2005, 70 years after McCay's death ( see Copyright and the EU's Directive harmonizing the term of copyright protection for details ).
" Maggie Out " was a chant popular during the Miners ' Strike, student grant protests, Poll Tax protests and other public demonstrations that fell within the time when Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Following heavy investment in road construction from the 1950s onwards, public transport patronage fell nationwide.
* The Road to Rio ( 1947 ) and My Favorite Brunette ( 1948 ) were owned by Bob Hope Enterprises but the latter fell into the public domain after its copyright was not renewed.
There was public outrage when the media reported that David Westerfield, in a high-profile murder case in San Diego in 2002, was negotiating a deal in which he would reveal the location of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam ’ s body in exchange for avoiding the death penalty: the deal fell through when her body was found, and the case went to trial.
Perhaps as a direct result of this scandal, the Conservative party fell in the eyes of the public and was relegated to being the Official Opposition in the federal election of 1874.
By 1908, a majority of the public demanded double-sided disc recordings, and cylinders fell into disfavor.
This Super Bowl was unique in that it fell on the same day that he was inaugurated for a second term ; because January 20 fell on a Sunday, Reagan was sworn in privately and the public ceremony took place the following day.
When in June 1756 Minorca fell after a failed attempt by Admiral Byng to relieve it, Pitt's allegations fuelled the public anger against Newcastle-leading him to be attacked by a mob in Greenwich.
Various attempts at containing the disease by London public health officials all fell in vain and the disease continued to spread rapidly.
As public protest fell out of favor, practitioners established underground " material sites " which would produce literature and DVDs to counter the portrayal of Falun Gong in the official media.
As analysts have noted, the root of the concern may be traced to successful cost control efforts in the mid 1990s, where public health expenditure per capita, in inflation-adjusted dollars, actually fell.
ABC's ratings fell dramatically as competitors introduced their own game shows and the public grew tired of the format.
Taboos against drinking to excess fell away after the Conquest, resulting in problems with public drunkenness and disorder.
Mary and William were crowned king and queen of England in 1689, and because Dryden was deeply sympathetic to James he lost his public offices and fell into political disfavor under the new reign.
After Holmes fell on hard times, he prostituted both her and himself, as well as beating her in public.
The dialect more or less fell into disuse in the public realm.
The violence after the " Klanvocation " had the desired effect: Membership fell off, and no further public Klan meetings were held in Worcester.
The student population was always considered low compared to many other area public schools, but in the later years the average grade level fell to an average of between six to eight students.
Support for the party fell by 5 %, and it was clear that the public sided with Reynolds over O ' Malley, concerning the allegations made at the Tribunal.
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