Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the arrangement with ETS, the College may set specific parameters, such as minimum test scores, projected majors and geographical background, and must then pay $100 for each set of requirements. The school must also pay ten cents for each name it receives...
...Notes. Actually, under the rules of the 90-minute debate, each candidate will have three minutes in which to answer questions. Candidates may make notes but not bring any background materials. If there is a follow-up question, the candidate will have another two minutes to reply further. The opponent will then be permitted his own comment of two minutes on the subject. There will be no opening statements, but at the end of the debate, Ford and Carter will be allowed three-minute summaries...
...Heflin, 55, is a strapping giant of a man, but he conspicuously avoids throwing his weight around. His background might well have produced a dyed-in-the-cot-ton supporter of the status quo instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World...
...recently-announced program which King said has already received more than 100 letters suggesting candidates for interviews, will be limited to 40 or 50 extensive oral autobiographies, including family background and sources of motivation, with special attention given to histories of elderly women. Besides community leaders and professional women, the Library has also received suggestions to include ordinary people like hairdressers in the oral history...
Schroeder makes an attempt to provide a contextual narrative discussing the major events of Amin's reign. Surely it would be too much to expect a sophisticated political analysis of the Amin regime as background narration to an hour and a half film, but Schroeder's effort is nonetheless startlingly superficial. Amin's "economic war"--the wholesale destruction of the Asian community in Uganda--is accorded a scant few sentences and dismissed as a failure. That is however, considerably better than the discussion of Amin's shift from a relatively close relationship with Israel to a virtual alliance with Lybia...