Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the summer, the presidents of Holy Cross, Colgate, Lafayette Lehigh, Bucknell and Davidson got together and decided to incorporate their school--all of similar sizes and background into a football conference...
...other experts attending the meeting included both those with background in government and academics. Also present at the briefing were Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Vice President George Bush, and several national security advisors and other members of the administration, Pipes said in a telephone interview from Washington...
North House representative Alexandra H. Coburn '86 said she thinks the junior tutorial program should be restructured to give students the proper background for writing theses. She said such reforms would include making "esoteric" tutorials more mainstream and stressing research and writing skills...
...nothing beyond the Israeli assertion to show that the tape was genuine. A man identified as Abbas, but referring to himself by the nom de guerre Abu Khaled, could be heard talking of "our objective" to the hijackers aboard the Achille Lauro. The conversation, with much static in the background, was somewhat cryptic, but at least seemed to indicate that Abu Khaled knew the hijackers personally. Said he: "Listen to me well. First of all, the passengers should be treated very well. In addition, you must apologize to them and the ship's crew, and to the captain, and tell...
...formula that takes the position and brightness of the separate spots and "reconstructs" them into a three- dimensional picture of the crystal. Straightforward as this sounds, the equations were so daunting that they were ignored by the scientific community for ten years. Says Hauptman: "Crystallographers didn't have the background to use it." With the spread of high-speed computers, however, the power of the new method became clear. Once it took a couple of years to analyze a small crystal. Now, says Karle's wife Isabella, a chemist and one of the earliest champions of the technique, "this...