Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenes were a kind of visual metaphor for Reagan's foreign policy these days: placidity and fellowship front and center, tension and turmoil in the background. The trip to Ireland opened a ten-day tour filled with the kind of ceremony-visits to castles, palaces and battlefields-at which the President excels...
...when there is a powerful motivation to get well, pain can fade into the background. Dr. Jon Levine, of U.C.S.F., describes a woman whose hands and knees are swollen with arthritis but who continues to manage a San Francisco clothing store and has even run in the city's 7.6-mile "Bay-to-Breakers" road race. "I feel sure that she is experiencing the physiological impulses of pain," says Levine. "When you push her, she'll admit that there are certain things she tends not to do; for instance, she can't lift big bundles of clothing...
...issue that still dogs the Corporation is the question of representation. All of the current members come from the traditional Corporation member background: wealthy, successful, middle aged white males, and many critics continue to await the first woman or minority member...
While most students will already have professional degrees. Bok says that people with philosophy background could also-come to Harvard to study a specific field like medicine or business...
...really understand. Most seem to agree that at the center of their freshman year was a paradox: Lionel was one of the closest groups of friends they had ever been a part of, almost a family, yet at the same time its individual members were so radically different in background and temperament that it soon became clear that the center could not hold. "They certainly tried to expose all of us to diversity, that word we've heard so often." Gary says. 'I thought they might have tried to choose people who could live together but there seemed...