Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 20 would-be sleuths have applied so far for the Miami course. Liddy plans to offer similar instruction in nine other U.S. cities in the coming months. Tuition includes ammunition but not room or board, and Liddy requires an extensive personal-background check before anyone is admitted to his course. Says Liddy of the new academy: "The need is obvious." He should know...
...This program is the beginning of a life-long exploration of one's Ukrainian background," says Olga Andriewsky, administrator of the program. "It's the time when they become very interested in their family history...
Many students, organizers say, are drawn to the Institute in the summer because of the Harvard location and name. This helps explain why 30 percent of the program's enrollment does not come from a Ukrainian background. Many of these students major in Soviet studies...
...Court Justices. Is the Senate's job merely to say whether a President's choice has the intellectual qualifications and experience to sit on the federal bench? If so, Scalia and Rehnquist are above reproach. Both men, declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole last week, have "the experience, the background, the integrity, the intelligence and the right stuff...
Another change which hit the Summer School this year is the addition of Economics Department placement tests. Pihl said the tests are designed to weed students without any quantitative background from upperlevel economic courses...