Word: background
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trademark for a system of transmitting recorded background music by telephone line or radio to restaurants, stores, factories, etc. -noun, the music so transmitted, variously regarded as unobtrusive but pervasive, bland and monotonous, etc. (Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition...
Ironically, Texans found his Yale background as alien as the Yalies found the Lone Star State resident. In 1978, Bush ran for Congress from Texas against Democrat Kent R. Hance. Hance, a graduate of the University of Texas and of Texas Tech University, looked at Bush's Yale degree and immediately saw his opening...
Around the House, Gore didn't make a splash. Had he not known Gore's background, Rosenblatt would never have guessed that Gore was the son of a famous senator...
...have to conduct a search to find a less connected bunch of Harvard," Somerby says. "Tommy Lee Jones came from a working-class background.... By Harvard standards, [Gore] was living with the complete proletariat...
...crime is being investigated, although a criminal investigation could still produce a number of scenarios. "Nothing can be ruled out thus far," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "By making the FBI the lead agency in the investigation, it now becomes possible for a more thorough investigation into the background and lives of everyone aboard the plane. And the men leading the probe headed up the PanAm 103 and TWA 800 investigations respectively, giving them plenty of experience in investigating terrorism that looks like accidents and accidents that look like terrorism...