Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That, plus the fact that few university lawyers have an antitrust background, has led the schools to look outside for help. Most of them found it in Washington, where the nation's leading antitrust lawyers practice...
McKibben wrote for The New Yorker for several years after leaving Harvard, and it shows. The End of Nature cultivates the quietly lyrical style that is the magazine's trademark. Nowhere is this background more evident than in the closing of the second chapter when McKibben explains why the "green-house effect" is an apt name for the global warming problem...
Thank you notes: Always send one if anemployer has taken time to see you at hisworkplace. Besides thanking him for the interview,reemphasize any point you feel may have beenespecially important. Also, if the employer showedany doubts about your background, follow up withpoints which would help dispel any doubts...
...several Jewish men join an organization with the hopes of meeting and socializing with others of the same cultural and religious background, more power to them. The courage to associate socially--not just for religious and cultural functions sponsored through organizations such as Hillel--should be commended...
...varying ideas and customs with the rest of the community. And cultural activities alone are not always enough to build strong personal bonds between individuals in minority communities--too often we see members of the same race or religion shy away from social association with people of their own background for fear of being characterized as "segregationists" or by their minority characteristic alone...