Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schedule requires her to monitor all the bases, dashing from one editorial meeting to another in the course of assigning 69 reporter-researchers to stories and projects each week. Their job: to gather documentation for virtually every fact that appears in the magazine and to provide reporting and background material for the writers. Through her staff of reporter-researchers, Satterwhite, who became the magazine's eighth research chief in 1984, is the ultimate steward of TIME's accuracy. She is outspokenly proud of her staff's contribution to the magazine. "There is no question," she says, "that research provides...
...common practice for coconut farmers to pay their landlords 70 percent of each harvest, a fact which helps to explain why there are 24,000 NPA in the field. The corrolation between perceived unfair land practices and military insurgency seems to be unmistakable. Given such a background, if the government of the Philippines wants to pursue--and achieve--a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program worthy of the name. But with a Congress not predisposed to favor such a policy, and a president commited to the policy in theory but incapable of effecting its realization in practice, the prospect of such...
...quotation on the plaque which catches the visitor's eye, reflecting the kind of hardnosed attitude, picked up from years of running for and holding elective office, that Thornburgh brings with him to his new job. Thornburgh is first and foremost a politican, and his background in and love for electoral politics was a prime reason why the K-school hired...
...contends that the remnants of racism remaining in the city -- like the Topeka Country Club, which has no black or Jewish members -- have nothing to do with school policies. The lagging performance of many black students, Superintendent Edwards maintains, is due to the handicaps of poverty and unstable family background. "These children bring these problems to school, and it's our job to try to compensate for them," he says...
...years South Korea has been a problem waiting to happen. Chun seized power in 1980, moving into the vacuum created a year earlier by the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, his longtime mentor. The product of a modest rural background, Chun was graduated from South Korea's military academy in 1955, and is a combat veteran of the Viet Nam War. Chun consolidated his hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded...