Word: backgrounding
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...bomb the source of their finances, places like Boston, or to infiltrate commandos to capture those suspected of involvement in such financing and kill them or spirit them to London to face trial. Putting aside feasibility, that would have been criminal idiocy. Another possibility was to consider realistically the background concerns and grievances, and to try to remedy them, while at the same time following the rule of law to punish criminals. That would make a lot more sense, one would think." Instead of this option, Chomsky points out, George W. Bush has made "virtually a declaration of war against...
According to Bob Harrison, Goldman’s New York City-based global co-head of telecom, media and technology, Mead’s “extraordinary amount of background, good sense of humor and calm and unflappable demeanor” have enabled him to become a trusted industry advisor and strategist...
Although “you simply couldn’t go to a party without a tuxedo,” he says, there was nevertheless a sense of brotherhood in the Class of 1952, irrespective of class or high school background...
...Brien stressed issues of fiscal responsibility and her record of strong leadership, while longtime Beacon Hill insider Birmingham, who also began with a smoothly-edited video, pushed hard on his background as a labor union lawyer...
When the Pacifist Council asked Russian-born Professor of Psychology Pitirim A. Sorokin to be their consultant, he declined. Even though he had come to the U.S. three decades earlier, he said his Russian background made him an inappropriate choice for the position...