Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite this lack of coordination, museum curators praise Harvard police for their part in protecting the museums, but some say the security guards hired by Harvard should undergo extensive training and background checks before being allowed to guard the university's collections...
Another problem facing security officials is the lack of employee background checks...
...ruled by what physicists refer to as nonlinear dynamics, which means precise forecasting of when and where they will occur is impossible. In theory, major earthquakes should be preceded by smaller shocks. They are, but the earliest foreshocks may be so weak as to be hard to distinguish from background seismic ``noise.'' And for every small tremor that is followed by a big quake, others may not be followed by anything much...
...outlet for her West Coast flimflam. For all his rapture in her, George proves to be a resistant victim. Unlike Katy's, his spirit is dull and earthbound. He remembers his own humble roots before he prospered in a packaging business, before his best friend-a carefree chap whose background was similar to his-died of cancer. As the fool in George plots marriage, the essential George-bland-walks all over London, even stopping by his dead friend's apartment in an effort to hang on to his sanity...
...recommends that a student have a strong background in physics and math before entering the class. A backgrounds in chemistry is also useful but to as lesser degree, he says...