Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged Mafia "soldier." Masselli is president of Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., which was a subcontractor for Schiavone. At Donovan's confirmation hearings, the FBI mentioned his alleged connections with Masselli, but shed little light on them. "I do not have any background whatsoever on him," Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen told the Senate committee. He added that there was "no reference" to Donovan in FBI wiretaps used to monitor organized crime "in New Jersey...
...first, Smith says, he tried to resist the calling and the force that captured him. Coming from a scientific background, he was skeptical of the whole experience, and in any case, he was convinced that he just "wanted to say no"--marry, have two kids, live in the suburbs, and be a science professor...
...anything," she says, but adds that its genesis was mainly "historical accident"--she intended when she introduced Math Ar in 1970 to draw section leaders from as wide a pool as possible, because "teaching introductory math courses is hard, and it's not clear whether having an enormous math background helps all that much...
...Realistic Novel and Social Consciousness in 19th Century France" only after "they asked me to," but echoes many other Core professors when he adds, "I look forward to presenting my field to people who do not specialize in it, but encounter it as a portion of their general educational background." Roy G. Gordon, professor of Chemistry and chairman of the subcommittee on Core science, elaborates: "It gives us an opportunity to address broad issues without the constraints of fitting into a sequence of departmental courses." he says...
...described by White House officials as "a diplomatic act of retaliation." In similar situations in the past--Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968--the U.S. ambassador had remained in Moscow, Some, including the unidentified State Department officials, saw Watson's recall as indication that he had "no special background in foreign affairs" and "no particular access to Soviet leadership." "Is Watson the Right Man?" asked an article in Newsweek in February. "As many people now see it, what the embassy now needs is a hard-nosed professional diplomat who can deal with a new kind of cold...