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For now, however, the cost issue is moving to center stage in Washington.

For a moment, the president simply stood at center stage.

But that does not mean James has to take center stage every moment.

Soon enough, they found that the house had taken center stage in their lives.

For the most part the art takes center stage, but the house itself sometimes becomes the focus of attention.

But in two of this week's better efforts, men take center stage.

But alone here on center stage, as though the whole world were shut out, these players keep going.

Then, as if by a will outside herself, her eyes were drawn to the center stage.

By last year, the question of the North's nuclear weapons project had taken center stage.

But her show business career took center stage at the memorial.