Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Brenner--like many other K-Schoolgrads--says that his years in Cambridge provided"a very good background for people who expect tohave a career on the Hill," he adds it was not theperfect education. As Van Hollen says, "It's hardto think of anything that can really prepare youfor working on the Hill except for being here...
While Brenner--like many other K-Schoolgrads--says that his years in Cambridge provided"a very good background for people who expect tohave a career on the Hill," he adds it was not theperfect education. As Van Hollen says, "It's hardto think of anything that can really prepare youfor working on the Hill except for being here...
...interrupt this magazine for an important political bulletin. The bellwether Cognoscenti Caucus is now over, and the results are pouring into Election Central. In a few moments we will find out the winner of the coveted "Big Mo" Award. But first, some background...
...campaign. It is an irresistible angle for journalists, he admits, and the patrician roman numeral provides an easy stereotype. Du Pont is astute enough to ban reporters from his elegant home near Wilmington and his sprawling summer house in Maine, but he knows he cannot really bury his privileged background. "I am what I am. I can't change it, so I don't worry about...
Strange, wonderful system that somehow brushes the most humble. Does Jesse Jackson understand the deep farm problems, the complicated roots of small-town deprivation? His own background is so very distant. But he understands want and being left out. We will know before long whether that is enough to link the mighty White House to the tiny town of Greenfield in the history books yet to be written...