Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Springsteen, too, speak of the devil. Those of you who saw Sissy Spacek, in "Carrie" will be happy to know that, because of strained ligaments, she'll be unable to join Bruce in his current tour. But you should catch Bruce--along with an all-star group of new background performers with Roots or summer cottages in or near Asbury Park, N.J.--on Tuesday, March 22 at the Music Hall...
...While Henry Wise '18, attorney for the Police Association, has called for a "blue-ribbon panel" of independent experts to study the morale issue, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, will state only that the University intends to engage an organization with "considerable resources" and a "background in dealing with organizational change in police departments...
...reality lends his image a paradoxical strength-that of the throwaway line. One of the most affecting paintings in this show, for the same reason, comes late in Ensor's career, 1915: a portrait of his mother's corpse. At first glance she is mere background, an almost monochrome rumpling of the sheets behind a still life of medicine bottles; to the extent that paint can catch the sour, carbolic odor of a virtuous deathbed, it is done here...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, said yesterday the two sides can only resolve the union's objections to Gorski's efficiency campaign by calling in "a firm with considerable resources and background in dealing with organizational change in police departments...
...single consultant would not have either "the resources nor the background" to deal with the current dispute, Powers said...