Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crewmen aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nassau, it was quite a workout. "You heard a little laughter in the background when some tried it for the first time," said Exercise Leader Arnold Schwarzenegger, 34, who ventured topside to stir up offshore sales of his book, Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men. His professional appraisal: "I saw a few potential Schwarzeneggers in the crowd. In fact, most of them were shipshape...
Note: The White House press release describing DeMuth's background referred to the "Harvard" rather than "Kennedy" School of Government...
During the last year, however, as Poland's independent labor union, Solidarity, came to the forefront as that country's strongest labor force, KOR's role in the movement was greatly diminished, and the committee assumed a mainly advisory, background position...
...omission of Dr. Arif Hussain's criminal background raises questions beyond those of medical ethics. By showing themselves more willing to bail out a friend than to obey the moral rules of their profession, the doctors called into question the legitimate uses of influence and revealed the kind of mentality which can be bred in a heavily male environment. Whether the recommending doctors felt that the nurse who was raped had "asked for it," whether they thought their colleague had "learned his lesson," whether they merely forgot to mention the conviction, or whether--as one doctor said last week--they...
...like Hussain with the care of women and men in need of medical attention. And there is no room in academics for men who could satisfy their conception of the truth, not by lying outright, but by omitting from their recommendations a vital part of Hussain's background...