Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan to raise my children with a strong sense of their Jewish heritage, for I know how meaningful religion has been in my life. At the same time, I hope they will develop a sense of their own unique cultural identity and will value each aspect of their diverse background. --Debra P. Hunter...
However, in a question-and-answer session during Friday's lecture, Feldstein denied that his conservative background unduly biases his economic point of view. He added, though, that it might have some influence...
...think it's highly unfair for the Ec10 department to use an overly biased Republican standpoint because it's going to affect us no matter what we do in economics. People who don't have a strong background in terms of knowing more about the welfare system...will be strongly biased against welfare," said Chinwe Onyeagoro...
...with everyone scrounging for money in those last frantic weeks, no one was asking a lot of questions. Which is why the beneficiaries don't know much about their donor's background. Raised in Taiwan, Young joined the Taiwan navy as a supply officer, studied engineering in England and returned to Taipei, where he started an aerospace consulting firm. He later moved to Hong Kong, where he keeps a picture of himself with Ronald Reagan hanging on his office wall. Young served as the Asian agent for several aviation companies, including Pratt & Whitney and, more informally, British Aerospace. Over...
...acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth American Indian, one-fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese roots with a precision that a racial-classifications expert under South African apartheid would admire. He said that when he was asked to check a box for racial background, he couldn't settle on just one. "I checked off 'African American' and 'Asian.' Those are the two I was raised under, and the only two I know...