Word: backgrounding
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black lumpfish caviar, smoked trout, salmon and shrimp. Crooning in the background were the Augusta Singers, a group of black balladiers. The bash, hosted by the Governor and Atlanta's Citizens and Southern National Bank, was the high point of the annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, which had attracted to Georgia's capital some 10,000 financial executives from across...
Topics in the study by PBH's Committee for Economic Change include the effect of a working-class background on social life and the amount of term-time employment that work-study students feel they can handle, Cronin said...
...really interested in the socialization of working-class students--do they hang around with others of the same background, does it matter, do people even know?" Cronin said. Former attempts to "document the experience" of working-class students have focused mostly on minorities, rather than a broad range of students, she added...
Laucer, who took advantage of the speakers program to have lunch with Thomas Phillips, chairman of the board of Raytheon Corporation said that "the most interesting part was listening to [Philips] experience and background and why he thinks he is successful...
...Special Concentrations Committee. A student must carefully examine his commitment to a program of 10.0 full courses (devised by Corbett, Dowling and Stellar), and find an advisor to work with as well as a laboratory to work in. These considerations are prerequisite for students intending to gain a through background in neuroscience; however, students are often deterred from investigating neuroscience at Harvard due to the officials nature (as well as discouraging, for many who try) of Special Concentrations...