Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against this background, the State of the Union speech that Reagan is delivering this Tuesday night and the budget he is sending to Capitol Hill six days later have assumed even greater importance than is customary. They will bring the Administration, and the nation, to a critical test. At issue is whether Reagan can produce a credible program to nurture sustained recovery from the crippling recession that seems to have finally hit bottom. That in turn will go far to determine whether he can regain enough of the political momentum he lost in the past year to restore his effectiveness...
Armstrong discovered that even Hubbard's personal background was a sham. Public records show that when Hubbard had claimed to be traveling through Asia and the South Pacific from 1925 to 1929, learning what he called "the secrets of life" from magicians, lamas, priests and wise men, he was actually a mediocre high school student. Although Hubbard presented himself as a highly educated man, he flunked out of George Washington University's engineering school after two years...
...National Gallery's East Wing, with its choppy transitions of level, is a confusing place for large sculpture; the background is always getting in the way. But Smith's ponderous iron wagons, bright stainless-steel portals and gesturing arabesques of rusty or painted metal survive against it in all their magnificent variety. This is not a complete retrospective. It concentrates on the years of Smith's maturity as a sculptor, starting in 1951 with the Agricola series-"drawings in air" made, as often as not, from abandoned farm implements he collected around Bolton Landing-and finishing with...
...particularly poignant photograph in the magazines shows as emaciated and shoddily else home. Overlooking the scene, in the background, stands a great billboard depicting cigarette-smoking business executives clothed in expensive suits; their brand of cigarette, the sign announces, is "the brand for the Very Important Person." According to the World Health Organization, advertising in the Third World... offers the fulfillment of three main aspirations; unity, social status, and sex-role identification." Virility is smokiness' promoted and accepted result...
...House knows that since reporters are not allowed to see ministers, it is very difficult for a journalist to get information worth writing about unless he knows exactly whom to ask. House is particularly interested in learning about Soviet economic issues through Harvard's Russian Research Center. With this background knowledge, she hopes to write a five-part series on the USSR when she again makes a visit there this spring...