Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually the speech of this renowned oracle, this spirit medium for dead plants, became just so much background noise--like the pounding of the surf, or the whine of a chainsaw. The only bits of excitement were the occasional long periods of silence, each one of which caused me to look up from my notes, half-expecting it to be followed by a dull thud and a cry for oxygen or a taxidermist...
...smoking disk jockey in New Orleans stumbles into the fringes of a radical right-wing uprising. Dog Soldiers (1974) depicted California drug traffic as the Viet Nam War coming home to roost. A Flag for Sunrise (1981) showed some misfits sinking into a vortex of Central American revolution. The background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow manages to play her affliction out to its final scene and destroy herself. Whether Walker lives or dies hardly makes a dime's worth...
...Marcos holdovers--Defense Minister Enrile and Central Bank Governor Jose Fernandez --the 16 men and one woman given ministerial portfolios represent the spectrum of centrist opposition that supported Aquino's candidacy. The Cabinet has a firmly middle-class, moderate cast that is so reflective of Aquino's own background and political views that a reporter at her first press conference pointedly asked whether the choices were too "elite." The Cabinet selections did not please the far left, which decried them as "bourgeois," but the ministers' middle-of-the-road credentials should appeal to the business community and the international lending...
...program reflects a growing necessity among students to analyze law with a solid background in economics, particularly in studying large liability cases, Shavell said...
Gorbachev's new men, for the most part, share his background of higher education and wide managerial experience. These new leaders look more like savvy executives than rumpled and boorish political hacks. Some have traveled to the West, and all are familiar with the latest American or European trends in their fields. Their success has usually been built on innovation rather than a slavish adherence to established methods...