Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trading partner is the U.S., and Mexico, in turn, is the U.S.'s third largest customer, after Canada and Japan. These days the U.S.-Mexico relationship has acquired considerable drama as the U.S.'s big Latin neighbor confronts its worst economic crisis in 40 years. Against this background, 35 U.S. corporate, philanthropic and university leaders joined 15 TIME editors and company officers on a five-day Newstour of Mexico and Panama. Like the seven other such trips sponsored by TIME in the past 20 years, the tour was designed to provide our Newstour guest journalists with a reportorial...
...theater coach, recalls her "incredible freshness. She had no complexes. She loved a man, for instance, and she did it ostentatiously. She was not prudish." Her friend Actress Iwona Sloczynska says, "Like Brigitte Bardot, she was a little bit of an animal. She wanted to tear away from her background; I was not surprised when she left Poland...
...company that has profited handsomely from deregulation is Jefferson Lines of Minneapolis. The company was skidding into the red and facing a strike in 1978, when Louis Zelle, 59, a Minneapolis real estate developer who owns 60% of the company, set out to find someone with "no background in the bus industry" to run the firm. He explains: "Most bus executives are only interested in meeting schedules. Passengers are incidental...
...This background has prompted students at the College, the Law School and the K-School to demand that the name of the exchange program be changed. K-School administrators have agreed to meet with student leaders to discuss the issues, but they maintain that the chances of succumbing to the demands is very slim. The charges against McCloy have been raised before and cleared to their satisfaction. "McCloy is a great man, and unless any new charges are unearthed, there is no reason why he shouldn't be honored," says Guido Goldman, director of the Center for European Studies. Goldman...
...sense. Recently at the start of a paragraph I wrote, "Then occurred the intervention which irretrievably bent the twig of events." It was intended as a kind of signal to the reader. (Every now and then in a historical narrative, after one has been explaining a rather complicated background, one feels the need of waving a small red flag that says, "Wake up, Reader; something is going to happen.") Unhappily, after finishing the paragraph, I was forced to admit that the incident in question had not irretrievably bent the twig of events. Yet I hated to give up such...