Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Background...
Galluccio says his background, as well as his skills in policy-making, allow him to connect well with Cambridge residents...
...campaign, so far, has been a dream. Contributions flow in like lobbyists into Congress. Williams' main primary opponents are three longtime council members forced to answer at every stop for the various crises the city suffered. Last week opponents began raising 11th-hour questions about Williams' background--before Yale, he experimented with marijuana and hippiedom. And even after he traded his tie-dyes for bow ties, he has been flighty, leaving most of his jobs within a couple of years. Others complain that he cut procedural corners when he took over city finances...
...July 23, Arecibo directed a powerful high-frequency radio beam toward the site SOHO should have been, a million miles away orbiting the sun. Ten seconds later, NASA's 230-ft. radiotelescope at Goldstone, Calif., began picking up its faint radar profile, barely perceptible against the background noise of space...
...answer, more often than not, is nowhere. Across the U.S., average students like Brian Wennerstrum--a group researchers call "woodwork children" because of their tendency to fade into the classroom background--are suffering from an unofficial policy of neglect as public schools overlook students in the middle in favor of the bright stars or the learning disabled. The share of public-school budgets devoted to "regular education"--which almost two-thirds of students receive--plummeted from 80% in 1967 to less than 59% in 1996, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From...