Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program is open to experienced teachers under 50, as well as to young instructors in need of background. Applications for the 1959-60 session will be accepted until...
Against the background of Russian rumblings and from behind closed Government doors came the news that the Administration has dedicated itself to the task of trying to balance the fiscal-1960 budget, which the President will submit to the new Congress in January. It is a goal that might have to be discarded as irrelevant if the U.S. has to use force to preserve the West's outpost of freedom in Berlin. But meanwhile, the aim of combatting inflation and governmental bloat by balancing the budget is highly relevant to a challenge that confronts the U.S. in the middle...
...feel about becoming a cardinal? "I personally don't have the temperament or the psychological background for honors of this kind. I'm happy with this honor because the people are happy. It would have been much easier without it. I'm a man who doesn't take to protocol, social ecclesiastical standing, and other high places that go with the robes of a prince of the church. But I am tremendously grateful to the Pope...
...regimes. Munro's experience as Director of the Financial Aid Office has brought him in close touch with many of the student problems he will now have to meet head-on. It is too early to indulge in predictions about the new Dean's performance, but his background and abilities well qualify him to cope with one of the most trying posts in the University...
Robert F. Bales, professor of Social Relations and an expert on group dynamics, said he would emphasize the background and personalities of the students, rather than their sexes, in evaluating the type of group organization preferable. However, he noted that in Social Sciences 112, "Human Relations," "hetrogeneity is preferred in discussion groups because the existence of different perspectives leads to interesting discussions...