Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what other goals it may achieve, the medical profession has always maintained as its ultimate mission the relief of human suffering. Though the greatest of medical innovators have made their most important contributions for any combination of personal and professional reasons, the background against which their motivations play has never changed. It remains what it has been since earliest s: the constant mindfulness that individual people are enduring the effects of disease and that only through the intervention of others can their problems be addressed...
HRMN usually holds elections at the end of the fall term, so the election several weeks ago was unusual. Sarhan, a senior, said that he does not plan to run for re-election at the end of this term, but will instead "take more of a background role," he said...
...down this path. We should vote for whomever we think will serve our community best, irrespective of whether that person is a he or a she, a musician or an athlete, a Christian or a Jew, a member of our own ethnic group or someone from a different background. Then we could have true representatives, along with the contentment that comes from doing right...
...council does not keep figures on the ethnic background of candidates or members, more than 10 members interviewed last night said the new council has a greater showing of Asian-Americans...
...hired Roberts, three years away from retirement. Then, early this year, he named Bill Keller, 48, a former foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to replace Roberts this month. Though criticized in some quarters as having too similar a background to Lelyveld (and causing a stir internally because of his messy personal life: around the time of the promotion he had left his wife and adopted son for a British journalist who was pregnant with his child), Keller has received a good initial reception in the newsroom. His chief competition...