Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of this unusual background has beento lead many, including officials at the center,to wrestle again with what has long been anethical dilemma in academia: when does researchstop being academic and start becoming paidpromotional material...
...impressed by Counter in theinterviews--not only because of his background,but because of his willingness to undertakeventures," said Roderick Loney, chairman of MedgarEvers' division of education...
...interesting enough candidate to moveforward. He doesn't have a strong senior-leveladministrative background--not a dean, not a vicepresident, not a provost," Withers said. But sheadded that Counter is thought to have a strongacademic background...
...Some of those [policy mistakes] you make whenyou haven't had the background can hurt," Fordsaid. "A governor doesn't have that experience. Hemay be the brightest and most conscientious, butyou don't pick up [foreign policy knowledge] in abook. That's where George Bush has the advantage...
...with the late Professor Campbell, one of the world's reigning experts on mythology, was fascinating stuff, if you're really into fertility cults, purification rites and the like. But the show wasn't all Upanishads and Choctaw legends. Once in a while, with Moyers smirking approval in the background, Campbell would offer some solid, down-to-earth advice. Live mythologically, he would say. It's a means of keeping one's inner spirit attuned to the archetypes and myths that surround us even in this secular age. Well, that seemed a pretty shrewd observation...