Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never really comfortable eating in restaurants," confesses Mariel Hemingway. But her worries about upstaging the cuisine appear to have piqued her appetite for entrepreneurship. Last January the actress and her husband, Restaurateur Stephen Crisman, opened Sam's Cafe on Manhattan's East Side. With Crisman's background, the move might seem natural. Yet at a time when absolutely everyone seems to have a favorite place to eat, a mixed bill of celebrities has decided that the coolest thing on the hot restaurant scene is to own your...
...article, Robinson reported on "a pattern of discrepancies" and suggested that Lakian exaggerated in his campaign literature about his background, schooling, military career and business success...
...first some West German officials, like other U.S. allies, believed the evidence to be indicative rather than conclusive. By week's end Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared at a press conference that "the attack also had a Libyan background." But he took care to add, "Please note that I said 'also,' and not 'only.' " German intelligence officials explained that they had been shown what seemed to be only partial transcripts of the Libyan messages intercepted by the U.S. Those summaries, they said, certainly pointed to some Libyan involvement but did not quite prove that Gaddafi had planned and ordered the attack...
Hogan declined to say whether a series of stories in the Sun about Hurst's background, including reports that Hurst's resume contained "inaccuracies and half-truths," played a role in the resignation...
...Harvard, we have a group of men with socially elitist attitudes forced to compete on a strictly meritocratic basis for grades and extra-curricular activities. Were such individuals denied a socially-accepted opportunity to exclude their fellow students on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, income, and family background, this proclivity would find expression in more mischievious ways...