Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the scholars offered suggestions. Students at universities must be admitted only after tests of competence, not because of party loyalty or class background. Industries must be organized not to meet quotas but to meet need. Planning must fit reality. Most important: peasants must be released from state planning to plant their own crops...
...Much of it is aimed at preventing competitors from stealing proprietary information about product design, manufacturing techniques and marketing strategies. Companies install electronic locks that can be opened only with card-shaped "keys." Sensitive reports are circulated on a strict "need to know" basis. Workers are subjected to intensive background checks that include lie-detector tests and investigations by private detectives...
...years ago, it was more or less obligatory for American critics to focus on the "radical" formal aspects of Manet's work and, in particular, on his use of flat (or at least shallow) pictorial space. Lone figures like The Fifer and Matador Saluting were posed against a background too flat to be a room, too brown to be outdoors; it was no more than a neutral backdrop, an exaggerated version of the depthless space behind Velásquez's portraits and some of Goya's. This concern for silhouette and two-dimensional compression could be seen...
...general public in the Soviet Union .. . Andropov's election was unexpected. His KGB background was not an encouraging omen [and his] election met with no enthusiasm. The first gloomy anecdote to circulate was probably an accurate reflection of the general feeling: Andropov explains to a foreign journalist that he is sure the people will follow him. 'And those who don't follow me, will follow Brezhnev.' A later anecdote maintains that the Kremlin will probably be renamed - the Andropolis...
...this reason, the Mason program at the K-School, which draws 50 Third World leaders each year, is flourishing in its 25th year. The Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less than 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with...