Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unnamed company a man whose experience just happens to parallel the executive's own. The reply is often right on the button: "Why. I could handle that job myself." With that opening, the recruiter interviews the prospect at length, conducts a detailed background check, sometimes with the help of a detective agency, and occasionally runs the prospect through batteries of psychological tests. Most recruiters narrow the field to three, then hand the prospects over to the client...
...alternate examination is for all other persons who want to serve in the Peace Corps. Test results, background, special skills, and character references will be considered in making final selections from among these candidates...
...major accomplishment: the "Good Neighbor" policy. To him is due the credit for opening the battle against dollar diplomacy. If the battle is yet far from won, we owe a debt of respect to the man who challenged not only the dominant forces around him, but also his own background...
Among the professionals of world finance, the U.S.'s Robert L. Garner, 67, talks from a background of 14 years in international economic development, first as vice president of the World Bank, then as president of the International Finance Corp. Last week, about to retire from IFC, Mississippi-born Bob Garner spoke in Vienna at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (see BUSINESS). Out of his experience, he delivered himself of some of the most sense-making ideas so far about the problems of giving foreign aid-and of receiving it. Excerpts...
Compressing a momentous year of wartime history into a few sentences, a new State Department pamphlet titled Background-Berlin, 1961 has drawn strong complaints from Republican Congressmen because it seemed to blame Dwight Eisenhower for allowing the Russians to capture Berlin. Last week the State Department announced that the questioned passage would be rewritten. The Department's backtracking was appropriate-for in fact the cold-war history of Berlin is one that keeps getting added to, but has seldom been added up right...