Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Veneziano said Bonang's writing and administrative background were also important factors in choosing the new assistant...
...right level of experience," Veneziano said. "His broad background at the ECAC has given him the knowledge to suceed in the field but yet, without having any preconceptions of how things are done in a program like ours...
Furthermore, it is probably no accident that the president's chief rah-rah boy, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle himself, is reportedly the driving force urging Bush to return to space. Quayle, whose scientific background is questionable at best, has in the last year raised to new heights the dominance of image over substance in American politics...
...sovereignty," that the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza would continue and that the proposed elections could not take place until the 19-month-old intifadeh ended. Ironically, Shamir has espoused these same positions many times. But he had hoped to keep them in the background while he maneuvered to keep on top of the pressures for peace...
WHILE these stories certainly reveal a great deal about America and the people who live here, they do start to sound a little bit corny after a while. (If you read More Like Us in a very still room, you can hear "God Bless America" playing softly in the background.) Still, the American Dream is a hard thing to write about without doing too much flag-waving, and Fallows manages to survive with some degree of objective credibility when he writes about these people who have made the American Dream come true for them...