Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comments got angrier, and the press got hungrier, and on Wednesday in New Orleans the wall of privacy came tumbling down. Asked by the Dallas Morning News ? they win the trip-the-candidate prize ? about whether Bush would require that his appointees answer the drug-use question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand it, the current form asks the question, ?Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?? and I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is no." Thursday morning in Virginia, back the goalposts went again. "Not only could...
...wonderful person," Fineberg said. "He has a terrific background both in technology and the University...
...wonderful person," Fineberg said. "He has a terrific background both in technology and the University...
Things have changed mightily, although there are still inexplicable gaps in federal regulation. The law, for example, allows gun owners to sell firearms from their personal collection without subjecting the buyer to the kind of criminal background check that a licensed dealer would have to invoke if selling exactly the same gun. This loophole has turned flea markets and gun shows--and the Internet--into Quick Marts for anyone needing an untraceable handgun. Guns remain exempt from consumer-product safety regulations, although those rules apply to toy guns. And penalties for crooked dealers still fail to recognize the societal costs...
...bereft lover can be playfully vindictive, as in the up-tempo (You Remember) The Way It Never Was, where even the girl-group la-la-las in the background have the whiplash of a taunt in them. Or she can try to take the long view. In So It Goes a woman hears about the end of an affair in whispers; the news has the impact of a sudden death in the family. Yet, she tells herself, "The spring lies waiting beneath the frozen ground/ And I'll be seein' you around/ So it goes...