Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ride chosen? She speculates about her strengths: "A good educational background and one that showed I could learn new things readily." Abbey, who was on the selection panel, has another explanation: Ride is a team player. Those who are determined to do their own thing, he says, "probably wouldn't be happy here." Ride clearly was. She enjoyed flights in NASA's two-seat T-38 trainers so much that she went on to get her private pilot's license. She threw herself enthusiastically into parachute training, scuba diving and even stomach-churning flights aboard a NASA...
Mexican novelist diplomat Carlos Fuentes this afternoon's principal Commencement speaker brings a unique background of political involvement and literary reflection to the Tercentenary Theater podium...
...spent his eight years here as a researcher on Vietnamese law at the Law School's East Asian Legal Studies program and plans to begin studying for a master's degree at the Law School next fall. They would never think of appointing someone from this background" to an academic position, he says, adding, "A scholar must fend for himself and find a position elsewhere...
...about it when a friend this year asked me if my parents were lawyers," she recalls. "He assumed that I came from a very rich back ground. At that moment, I knew that I could be much more open about my life and that I could talk about my background I wasn't necessarily using it as a crutch...
...this reason, the Mason program at the K-School, which draws 50 Third World leaders each year, is flourishing in its 25th year and the Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less that 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...