Word: backgrounders
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Although it has long been the domain of male fighters, Vale Tudo is increasingly attracting young women with a background in martial arts from all over the world. "Brazilian women are the best in the world today," said Daniel Otero, who is 24 and one of the world's foremost Vale Tudo fighters. Otero and others involved with the sport here believe that both Brazilian men and women have an advantage because they are often experts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the art of grappling on the ground developed by world-renowned fighter Helio Gracie, and popularized...
Although Starr’s artwork appeared as the background of a Discover Card in 1995, he was initially reluctant to publicize it any further, Glaeser said...
...Friends and colleagues say her background allows her to be concerned with a broad range of University issues...
...However, her background gave her the ability to serve as a communicator between displeased professors and the Corporation, Putnam says...
...went on to say that people should continue to pay attention to lingering crises that are often pushed to the background, even if newspapers and television outlets shed little light on them...