Word: backgrounder
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...extensive was your sailing background? I've been sailing my whole life and I'd lived on boats for eight years. So I did have quite a bit of experience. But I had never done very much solo stuff...
...past the cheesy name - honestly, this Twitterizing of words needs to stop - and you'll find that Tweleted is an occasionally useful service. Set against clouds on a bright blue background, Tweleted promises to recover any Twitter posts you may have accidentally deleted. A nice feature, but one hardly worth, well, Twittering about...
...warm March afternoon, the 20-year-old met some friends in Vigo's waterfront promenade. Portela works in a local clothing store and hopes to be a designer some day; her three friends are in college. Their shiny hair and fashionable clothes betray their prosperous, middle-class background, but even these women are feeling the pinch. Asked how the financial crisis is affecting them, they enumerate a long list: the clothing they can no longer buy, the vacations they can no longer take. "Before, you would just go shopping on a whim," says Portela. "Now my parents...
...favor was his long experience in dealing with Capitol Hill. With Democrats in Congress already sharpening their knives over the CIA's Bush-era policies and practices, the Agency would need protection - and Panetta, a veteran pol with contacts on both sides of the aisle but no real intel background, seemed the best possible shield...
...lead her to have greater wisdom on certain topics than her white male counterparts. It is no different from what Samuel Alito said in 2006 ("when I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender"). And what countless other Congressmen and Supreme Court nominees and presidential candidates have said when channeling their own "I grew up in a van down by the river" youths. Our varied experiences shape us, they enrich us, they give us the ability...