Word: backgrounder
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...client’s academic background really impressed the jury,” Harris said. “It definitely helped belie [Boeing’s] claims that he couldn’t do the job well...
...mammoth challenge. Not that Braff’s character, Andrew Largeman, requires anything resembling chutzpah: He plays a medicated, reluctant Jew, an aspiring actor returning home for his mother’s funeral. But if his style were any remoter, Braff could almost dissolve into the background of his strangely familiar, familiarly strange scenery. And, in one of his many pictorial feats, Braff as Largeman, wearing a shirt made from the same silk pattern lining the wall behind him, literally does...
...crisis in Darfur and Chad is an incredibly acute and massive humanitarian crisis, and I wanted to help. With my experience with humanitarian crises and my background in human rights and international legal issues, I thought I could contribute to this effort,” Leaning wrote...
...hour later, I'm sitting on the pavement, and I've seen a parade of sick, disabled, and blind young and old, being wheeled or prodded towards the grotto to receive their blessing. Hearing poignant organ music in the background and operating on little sleep, I have been robbed of self-control; my sobs come in big hiccuping gulps that I hide as best I can beneath my sunglasses...
...they're dead wrong. For the six years I was Secretary of Agriculture, I was very involved in international trade issues and helped negotiate a lot of agreements and spent a lot of time in China and other parts of the world dealing with those issues. I think the background actually helps me. As for property rights, I strongly believe in the importance of protecting creative rights. This isn't a partisan...