Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political leadership of El Salvador's leftist rebels last week. In Washington, the bipartisan commission charged with recommending long-range U.S. policy concerning the often neglected nations of Central America began its deliberations, taking testimony from two former Presidents and four retired Secretaries of State. And in the background loomed the U.S.-Soviet talks about Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), due to pick up again in Geneva this week, and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), scheduled to resume next month. For a President who has so far devoted the bulk of his energies to domestic affairs, it added...
...Defense Minister, he studied the background of every officer in the armed forces, while appointing his personal supporters to key military positions. When he became President, Assad made a study to determine how Syria's many previous coups had been carried...
...events at least as interesting as her plot. Hackett 's affair with the wife of a philandering husband is sexy and poignant, a tough embrace shared by two adults with equally damaged illusions. Similarly, the Depression, its grinding poverty and hero-worshiping tabloids, keeps threatening to push from background to foreground. In side the competent puzzle posed by Tender Prey, there is clearly a bigger novel and a promising novelist...
...worried that the current economic recovery cannot be sustained" in an era of "outsized deficits." Such misgivings are by no means confined to Democrats. Murray Weidenbaum, Feldstein's predecessor as Reagan's chief economic adviser, voices "latent concern" that because of deficits "inflation will hover in the background and future increases in employment will not be significant...
...effects of such deprivation on infancy are hard to gauge scientifically, but Dr. Gerald Young of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center says flatly, "If you want to guess what a child will be like at age seven, look first to the socioeconomic background." This is not simply a matter of economic hardship or nutritional deficiency. Says Brown's Lipsitt: "The socioeconomic index is as powerful a predictor of later intellectual prowess as any variable we've got, but it doesn't operate in a vacuum. It is a representation of the way people live...