Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that will be background noise compared with the unremitting fiscal conservatism that the G.O.P. candidates are likely to preach to an antideficit choir of Perot backers in Dallas. The Democrats can offer only a cacophony of views, ranging from the leftist tract of Jackson to the more centrist perspectives of House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. Clinton counselor Thomas "Mack" McLarty, relatively conservative, will stand in for the President...
...fact, visually this film might not be so bad. I recommend the theaters show it without the sound. Minus the overdone romantic music swelling in the background and the recycled dialogue, the romance might not have seemed so painfully staged...
This combined with Bush's stand as pro-environment and the background of a 10-year build-up of public concern over the acid rain and failing Environmental Protection agency standards to encourage a decisive move on the president's part, Porter said...
...fascination with which he read his texts for the course, and the enthusiasm with which he described his work struck me deeply. I learned quite a bit in the process as well--the social value and poetic richness of an art form which I had ignorantly disregarded as annoying background music...
Sanders, 63, said his background in both the academic and corporate worlds will give him the insight necessary to perform well in government...