Word: backgrounder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This group of fellows brings a broad range of expertise, background and political know-how to the IOP," said IOP Director Philip R. Sharp in a press release Monday...
...Orthogenic School, which he directed for more than 25 years, broke silence to charge that one component of "Dr. B's" treatment was physical abuse. Investigating scholars belatedly discovered that Bettelheim had lifted, without credit, many of his provocative insights from other writers and had flagrantly lied about his background. For example, he liked to boast that his entry into analytic training had been approved by Sigmund Freud himself. But there is no evidence that he ever met Freud or trained to be an analyst. (Bettelheim's doctorate was in philosophy, not medicine or psychology...
...played many roles in her life, several of them concurrently: mother, professor, foreign policy adviser, U.N. ambassador. She has seen it all and handled it with aplomb. As a foreign-born secretary of state, she is likely to be compared to the only other person of such a background to have served in that position, Henry Kissinger. We are confident that in attitude, as well as in gender, she will be different...
Someday, of course, people of Jeffrey's generation will be the parents in control, and they will be casually hooking up V chips to CD-ROMs and the Internet so that their children can play nonviolent, smut-free, four-dimensional Parcheesi with friends in Bangalore while listening to symphonic background music. Until then, though, any attempt at a techno-fix like the V chip will put the inmates in charge of the asylum...
...child care.) The state also proposed a sliding-scale co-pay structure for welfare recipients based on their income and the cost of the care they choose, and created a new category called "provisional certified care." This care, to be provided by any adult who passes a criminal background check, in any home meeting basic health and safety requirements, would be exempt from most of the regulations aimed at ensuring quality in Wisconsin's licensed day-care centers--and so presumably would be much cheaper...