Word: backgrounder
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...only the specific region involved, but also the way the travel is structured—including the proposed itinerary and the organizations and institutions involved—and the applicant’s ability to navigate the society around them as measured by language skills, cultural and ethnic background, and even related experiences...
Limpert’s specialty is cultivating corporate sponsors, an innovative approach in an industry that had long depended on individual benefactors. Fundraising, among other industries, became more media-savvy after the 1960s, employing the sophisticated marketing techniques of Madison Avenue to attract new donors. Limpert, with his background in advertising and public relations, was the perfect man to merge the fields...
...wouldn’t have swayed my judgment, or others’ [on the jury], because he was not armed at the time and we looked at the incident when it occurred,” she said. “Even if he had a background or a history, it wouldn’t have changed that night...
Defense attorney Charles Rankin argued in court on Wednesday that background information about Colono’s past might have changed jurors’ opinions about who started the fight that night...
...headquarters in Rome. "We've turned the concept on its head by addressing the urgency and immediacy of a real crisis situation." In its first six weeks, the game has been downloaded-for free-more than 800,000 times at food-force.com The site includes lesson plans for teachers and background info on the fictional Food Force aid workers, like a mustachioed Brazilian who, his bio reveals, joined 15 years ago after reading about the WFP's work on its website. After a gamer pointed out that the Web barely existed in 1990, the Brazilian replied diplomatically, "The game...