Word: backgrounder
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...hate to say it,? she says, ?but it might not appeal so much to a wider audience. One of the people at Starbucks was a high school teacher, and when we asked what his students would think of it, he said they would have to have a little more background.? But for those with the proper background, a so-so film may yet act as a cultural amplifier and a sign of pride...
...Impress your friends and family with Olympics trivia! Along with the latest happenings from the 2006 games, this fan site provides Web surfers with a slew of background information on Olympics history. http://www.janecky.com/olympics/wintergames/2006w.html
...polo shirt for most of the show, and—along with a female engineer from California—dominated the episode in terms of air time. Dubbed “the brains of the team” by a Stanford co-star, Martinez says he used his solid background in mathematical physics to help a team more versed in mechanical engineering.“It was my chance to really use the tools I had gathered in the classroom for the real world,” he says. But based on Martinez’s descriptions, the stars?...
...work well. Here's the deal: Apple has asked its software partners to compile programs in a "universal" format, which means they'll have two sets of execution code written side by side. Anything that isn't written for Intel will be handled in the computer's background. You won't have any kind of "Classic" environment popping up. The catch is that a few of Apple's higher-end programs won't work this way, including Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Aperture, Logic Pro, Logic Express, Shake and Final Cut Express...
However, other students said that they had more ideological reasons for their reluctance to commit to any one particular ethnic background...