Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged assassins. Says Marini: "This trial had to take place." The legal proceedings, moreover, are not entirely finished. A Roman court has begun a new formal inquiry into the presumed plot and assigned a trio of senior investigators to handle it. In the Netherlands, officials continue to probe the background of a Turk who, on the final day of a 1985 papal visit, tried to enter the country with fake identity papers and a Browning that police say came from the same lot as Agca...
...public hearing held two weeks ago on the San Francisco waterfront, protesters waved signs bearing slogans like OIL AND WATER DON'T MIX and CAN THE PLAN. In the background, sailboats flew banners that simply said NO. Speaking at the demonstration against the proposed drilling was Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who complained that Governor George Deukmejian was "putting up a FOR SALE sign along the whole state of California." Democrat Bradley is hoping to make the oil leases a political issue in his campaign this election year to unseat the Republican Governor. Deukmejian, who has supported offshore drilling...
...magazine is discreet," says Rao. "It's a safe, protected atmosphere because the people who run the personals know the background of the people who read them. There's a network, a camaraderie, between Harvard alums...
...federal waiting period on all purchases of handguns. Such a provision would not prevent any "honest citizen" from defending himself and would not violate the rights of gun dealers. It would merely give an angry gun purchaser time to cool down and the government a chance to check the background of potential gun owners for mental illness and criminality...
Dobrynin understood the American idiom and psychology, unlike most ambassadors. In the U.S., he was a hale fellow with a ready stock of one- liners and an indestructible alimentary canal. In Moscow or summiteering with his bosses, he faded into the background and became another cold-eyed lackey who, as he once did, jumped up and down like a kangaroo to open and close windows to accommodate Brezhnev's delicate health...