Word: backgrounding
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...They’re not seen because they are all in the background,” he says. “It’s just good management...
...difficult challenge: marrying creative freedom with commercial viability. "It's the terrible tension between wanting to spend money and running your organization well," says David McNeill, a spokesman for Arts Council England (ACE), a public-funding organization. Since ENO's chairman, Martin Smith, has an investment banking background, critics are finding it easy to insist that he is driven by financial considerations above all else. Such an attitude, says actress Fiona-Jane Weston, who attended the protest at St. Paul's Church, is about "knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing" - Oscar Wilde's definition...
According to Jackson, the best piece of advice in her book is a quotation from another student telling readers to be conscious of their family and social backgrounds. “The resources and motivations you bring from your family and personal background are always relevant—they’ll always be with you,” the student wrote...
...also credits Harvard with making background research, such as riding innumerable elevators to prepare for his first published novel, 1998’s The Intuitionist, seem not quite so “freaky...
Applicants will be selected based on academic background, extracurricular involvement and the amount of time they can commit to the process, Gross said...