Word: backgrounders
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Chinese-born Loling Song, who conducted research at Cornell before coming to Harvard Medical School, had initiated the process to achieve permanent residence status in 2004. Despite the FBI background clearance, Song said yesterday that her case is “still pending” and declined to comment further...
...separate study Fligor co-authored with Terri Ives, a professor at Pennsylvania College of Optometry, found that only six percent of the population listens to music at excessive volume levels when there is no background noise. But with background noise, this number increased dramatically to 80 percent...
...harsh lights of a theatre under construction, with saws and staple-guns buzzing in the background and sawdust covering the floor, Ur seemed fully at home. “We’re building a forced-perspective stage,” he says enthusiastically of the set, gesturing to a geometrically confusing structure rising behind...
...Over time, I've spent my time on those things the President wants me to spend time on, or has asked me to. I spend a lot of time on national security matters, which is an interest given my background as Secretary of Defense, on the Intelligence Committee and so forth. And that's clearly where he's spent a lot of his time, as well...
...spend a fair amount of time on Hill matters. Part of that is because of my background in the House of Representatives, and part of it because my continuing job as Vice President is in the Senate. Most people don't realize I'm actually on the Senate payroll. That's where my paycheck comes from...