Word: background
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front of the camera, he was on his own. Behind it, he would be led by two Viet Nam vets, Stone and Kovic. "I chose Tom," Stone says, % "because he was the closest to Ron Kovic in spirit. I sensed that they came from the same working-class Catholic background and had a similarly troubled family history. They certainly had the same drive, the same hunger to achieve, to be the best, to prove something. Like Ron too, Tom is wound real tight. And what's wrong with that...
...foreign investment in October. But he called off the trip in September after the Wall Street Journal published an account of his business deals, which include a $75 million partnership called China Ventures. Three weeks later, Nixon began his excursion to Beijing. After he arrived, an aide released a background paper pointing out that Nixon had no Chinese business interests. Though the document named no names, some people got the impression that Nixon was contrasting himself to Kissinger, who showed up in Beijing the following week with a group of U.S. businessmen...
Louis-Dreyfus has no background in advertising but has earned a hot reputation as a financial whiz. His chief accomplishment is the brisk turnaround of IMS. The company, capitalized at $232 million when Louis-Dreyfus took over in 1982, was sold to Dun & Bradstreet last year for $1.7 billion...
...know anything about John Larew, except that he is a careless and mendacious misreporter of truth, and that everything he says should be viewed against the background of the reality. How do I know this? Because of how he characterizes my own views on Israel. Everything he says about my views is demonstrably false. He accuses me of defending "year-long detainment without trial," and "no due process" in Israel. If Larew had simply bothered to read the published record, he would have seen that I have been opposed to administrative detention without due process for nearly 20 years...
Already, the Core Committee has commissioned studies of the academic background of Harvard undergraduates in science and history--the two areas that have received the most faculty complaints...