Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...India in 1986 and to Poland this year. But this trip had some especially grueling conditions. First, following the eleven-hour flight from Rome, there was the blast-furnace Florida heat. Then there was the pace. Allis often found himself asking, "How do you attend the Mass and the background briefing at the same time?" Then there was the unusually tight security around the Holy Father. To cover a papal Mass at 10 a.m. in Miami, reporters had to muster at 7 a.m. before being bused to and from the event...
...stereotype, said Robert K. Weatherall, director of career services and preprofessional advising. He said a report by the the National Academy of Sciences stated, "Professors and employers alike refer to the dramtically higher communication and social skills of engineering students. They seem to have a richer education and cultural background and are more confident and assertive than engineers of the past," The Tech reported...
...Gilead continually invites these musical analogies, even down to Wilson's ironic use of a title of an old spiritual for the play's title. The Alley Theater takes the analogy one step further with Emery Davis' score, itself a mixture of various musical styles, which plays in the background during the entire show...
...certain types of activities." Aboard Spoleto, John Paul said homosexuals "are in the heart of the church," along with "all people who suffer." In his first-ever remarks on AIDS, the Pope said, "The church is doing all that is possible to heal and especially to prevent the moral background" of the disease...
...wants his graphics, he says, to be "visually simple but technically complex." A 1985 poster for a company that makes Buddhist religious articles, for instance, features a high-resolution close-up of a human bone, drenched in dark powder and standing all alone and upright against a white background. In small letters at the bottom is the Zen koan-like non- slogan: "I am an ancestor of the future...