Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dockery played cornerback for the championship-winning 1969 New York Jets. But during his NFL career, Dockery says his Ivy League background created more problems than opportunities...
...During the course of a career that took him to CBS, NBC and then back to CBS, he covered college and professional football as well as the Tour de France and the Olympics. The basics of the profession came to him quickly, Dockery says, thanks to his academic background...
...spite of his patrician background and private-school education, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who was also president of The Crimson, had no trouble reaching out to the common...
...novelty-seeking behavior--generally regarded as a good thing. In 1997 another study saw a linkage between the same gene and a propensity for heroin addiction. Did the "good" gene for enhanced exploration become the "bad" gene for addictive tendencies? Biochemistry may be the same, but context and background matter...
...solutions prompted an opponent to call him Lenin, campaigns nonstop and doesn't seem to have a paycheck to miss. The Rev. Jessica Davis, who refers to herself in the third person as either "Jessica Davis" or "the next mayor of Baltimore," says "international travel" has given her the background to govern the city. Wonder where, exactly, she has been...