Word: backgrounders
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Officials said that there are thousands of contract employees working for the State Department, and that when they are hired, they are given basic background checks - for instance, looking at whether they have a police record. The department, however, asks no questions regarding their political backgrounds or activities...
...harshly the Chinese government will push back. The leaders in Beijing face what's an unusual dilemma for them: maintain order, but in a gentler way than they are accustomed to doing. The reason for this is clear enough: the memory of Tiananmen Square hangs undeniably in the background as the crisis in Tibet unfolds in this, the year of China's grand coming-out party. The scale of the unrest in Tibet - as well as the threat it poses to the Communist Party - doesn't compare to the massive political demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, which...
...through those accounts and came up with possible coordinates. But many people were reluctant to believe the enemy, he says. The Germans stood accused of luring the Sydney with a white flag, sinking her and shooting at her crew in the water. There was "always a chorus in the background," says Kirsner, "that the Germans lied...
...becoming an aid worker Iraq civil society has no background before 2003. It was all controlled by government, a totalitarian regime. Iraqis couldn't do any humanitarian work - government does everything. You're not allowed to question anything. If you question it, either you're persecuted or you're an outlaw. After 2003 July, I joined UNIFEM and NGOs started to form in Iraq, women NGOs. They were quite active in thinking of the future, trying to make something. After 2005, it was really difficult, [there were] a lot of humanitarian violations. Networking was completely something...
...major route to England's West Country that's often awash with heavy traffic. The constant whoosh of highway noise makes quiet reflection impossible at what many consider sacred ground, and nearly every vista is marred by cars and trucks whizzing - or, too often, crawling - by in the background. "It would be more reverent to the site if there was no traffic," says Don Ghostlaw, from Tolland, Conn., who on a recent Saturday had rushed to see Stonehenge on his first day in England. "It's surprising there is traffic so close to such an historic site." The situation...