Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's background has contributed to the undeniable fact that his support in many areas is squishy. Even at the time of the Democratic Convention, Carter's moment of triumph, Pollster Louis Harris said that the Democrats he surveyed "talked about him as though he were an outsider. They didn't say 'My man got it.' It's difficult to find any real enthusiasm." Admits one Carter staffer...
...give the candidates equal technical treatment. The separate lenses trained on the two were perfectly matched. ABC, which handled the split-screen debate as well as the final one, constructed two identical, fully furnished cottages in its largest New York studio so both men could prepare in comfort. The background cloth for the split sets in New York and Los Angeles was bought by ABC from the same mill. After the set was painted in New York, cans of the same paint were taken by Production Service Director Fred Schuhmann in an airplane to Los Angeles, to be used there...
...Nixon did not destroy the tapes: "He hoped to realize a fortune from them. And his background showed him to be a man greedy for both money and power...
...clearly drunk. Worse, a fellow workman noticed his absence when he heard the woman screaming. Instead of rushing to the rescue, he phoned his boss. The jury found the murderer's employers and the landlord liable. The company had not checked out the man's background, while the landlord did not provide adequate screening measures for visitors...
...background of the argument is that accountants have long been able to follow widely varying methods of calculating a company's profit or loss. As a hypothetical case, depending on which of two methods of figuring the value of goods held in inventory was followed, an oil company in 1974 might have claimed a profit of $6 or a loss of $1 on each barrel of petroleum sold from stockpiles. Companies and their auditors have been known to switch from one method to another, which would enable a company to report the greatest immediate profit. In an effort...