Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dick Thornburgh to investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
What do the creators of these works, the majority of whom live in New York, gain by going out of town? Time to nurture a show while insulated from panic- inducing box-office pressures, and solid artistic collaboration. Increasingly, regional artistic directors have some background of commercial success, while the standards of acting and design generally measure up to those off, and indeed on, Broadway. Just as important, the ticket buyers are receptive and discerning...
Piper says he thinks such a structure should bolster not only the ethics background of the students, but also that of the faculty, few of whom have focused on ethics in their research...
Coming from this background, Bok had to work hard to acquire the constant mask of congeniality Harvard's presidency requires...
Linda S. Wilson, a University of Michigan administrator with a background in chemistry, was named the seventh president of Radcliffe last week after a search which took the school more than 16 months to complete. Wilson, in an interview on the day of her appointment by the Board of Trustees, describes her experience with the search process and her concept of the presidency...