Word: backgrounders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since 2000, has combined her love of traditional local craftsmanship - basketry, weaving, leatherwork - with her own appreciation of designs that are both useful and attractive to Western sensibilities. Drawing on her diverse background - and a foundation art course in Britain - Magyar works with more than 90 small local producers and craftspeople who design a range of household items made from indigenous materials. The results are innovative and stylish. Bark cloth - "a wonderful material that is peeled from the trunk of a fig tree...
...conducted and the ways in which those are not friendly to women candidates.”The report contains a number of new guidelines designed to make searches for new faculty more equitable. For example, the report calls for search committees to be “diverse in background, perspective, and expertise.” This year, Hammonds also oversaw faculty recruitment, reviewing over 400 tenure appointments, and in almost two dozen cases her office provided funds to help woo professors from groups that are under-represented in the faculty.Hammond said that her work is not done. Next year...
...room on the first floor. Usually hanging in a distant corner, it gives you a jolt when it springs on you. It's a rectangular oil panel: a group of adolescent Brahmins, bare-chested and with gleaming, sacred threads dangling around their torsos, sit cross-legged against a burgundy background. One of them stares at you, one turns away, and the central figure, with a white-and-red paint mark on his forehead, looks beyond you, as if seized by an inspiration. The painting, Brahmacharis, is mesmerizing enough if you are a foreigner, but for any Indian, its power...
...billion to Fiat to free itself from a put option in the companies' 2000 joint-operating accord that could have forced the U.S. automaker to buy the Turin company outright. In the coming years, however, Elkann is expected to become the singular face of Fiat. "Because of his background, John's international mentality is not a question of schooling, it's a natural part of who he is. This is a great advantage," Montezemolo says of Elkann. More than ever now, the dynasty's future will be anchored by the eldest Elkann, known to friends and family as "Jaki...
...response to research that shows women are often overlooked in traditional search processes, the report contains a number of new guidelines aiming to make searches more equitable. For example, the report calls for search committees to be “diverse in background, perspective, and expertise.” Hammonds herself reviewed over 400 tenure appointments over the past year, and in almost two dozen cases her office provided funds to help recruit professors from groups that are under-represented in the faculty...