Word: backgrounders
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...writer’s humble background became a factor later, when the Signet Society—Harvard’s social club of arts and letters—almost did not accept Updike into their cloistered circle. Then-Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54 nominated Updike for inclusion in the Signet, but Updike was not able to pay the membership...
...Schapiro's financial self-regulation background may not be enough. According to Dr. Fred Dunbar, senior vice president at NERA, an economic consulting firm, "banks are suppose to behave themselves under self-rule." During the Bush Administration this popular belief drifted over to the SEC, Dunbar says. "The feeling was, with the SEC, that with such self-enforcement they wouldn't have to step up their own enforcement. But the financial crisis has led to a re-examination of this theory, firms don't behave as one might think in theory...
Although Caroline Kennedy's rather disorderly withdrawal from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate may have overshadowed New York Governor David Paterson's actual choice, Representative Kirsten Gillibrand is not someone who stays in the background. The ambitious mother of two fulfills two criteria Paterson reportedly had in mind: she's a woman, and she's an Upstater with deep family ties to the Albany area...
...Against that background, the prospect of owning the Standard must seem like a walk in the park, even as Lebedev contemplates plowing "tens of millions of pounds" into the loss-making publication. He told the Financial Times the Standard could be used "to help [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin to fight corruption" in Russia, but has also promised to maintain the paper's editorial independence. (See pictures of Putin's youth camp...
...background: there are 12 Chinese zodiac animals, each of which is subdivided by five elements signaling different qualities - wood, earth, water, fire and metal. This year's ox is an earth ox. That may sound innocuous enough, but according to one astrological interpretation, financial markets are in dire need of a spark from the fire element to set stocks blazing. For other fortune tellers, the worry is absence of metal, an element with which they make a simple astrological connection to money. A metal year, they say, brings plenty of gold. An earth year buries all that lucre under piles...