Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenge, he says, is to ensure that the students in the concentration not only have a broad background but that they also develop real expertise in a specific area, such as science, economics or government...
...help me. You know there were other people accused with me of a conspiracy to kidnap the crown prince. Three or four of them were just killed, and there was one, who comes from a very poor background and never had connections or education or anything--he spent ten years in jail. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations knew of me and adopted me. But this other man was not released for such a long time. That always happened in Nepal: the main leaders [of a rebellion] were not killed, but innocent people who threw a bomb here...
Smith says he and his clients believed that in many cases, race was not as important a factor in establishing the need for preference as family background, schooling and socio-economic class...
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...Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting-reacquainted sex, the fissures reappear. He complains dismissively about her freezing flat ("You can take hostages and tell...