Most CEOs, especially if they have a background in finance, are experts at this game.
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Mr. Lane said that he and Mr. Apotheker know the new board members and that they each have a background in a business that H-P is pursuing.
What they wanted were five-minute shows they could have running in the background while they fragged aliens on their Xboxes.
They talk to people without cameras or tape recorders in the background and they have their own businesses, too.
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In the background they have also developed an awesome set of social media analytics, which they are not selling.
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Against that background, they have started a process that they hope will lead to more appropriate and less risky audit practices.
Prospective teachers should be required only to hold a college degree, pass a test of essential skills, and be checked to make sure they do not have a criminal background.
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They would have to undergo a background check.
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They already have all of the background.
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With his background, they should have turned him over to Peruvian authorities to face charges.
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The Ternovskiys are proud of their Russian ethnic background, but they have a complicated relationship with the motherland.
From a group of 16 GOP senators gun control advocates have considered possible allies, at least nine have now said they oppose the background check compromise and one said he is leaning against it.
"The England team say they have got no distractions with the IPL but when you have all these background influences going on it is not the best environment to give your best performance, " Gooch added.
Being able to review their background and the steps they have taken to grow a successful business is truly inspiring.
This is the kind of thing they could have found out in about five minutes of background checking.
"You cannot house 90 individuals from a totally different ethnic background on green fields, they must have facilities, " he said.
They have produced highly accurate maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, which has its origins in the very early stages of the Universe.
They only wake up in the background if you have set them to notify you of an update, and then only for a limited time.
As I think about people who have made a difference, they come from a wide background.
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Just as those who practice medicine without background should provide compensation for the damage they have done, the same goes for those who issue fatwas without being qualified to do so.
He says the company performs background checks on all buyers to ensure that they have no record of criminal hacking.
He usually works with Michael Argenziano, an affable, bearlike man who is chief of adult cardiac surgery. (Oz trained Argenziano, and they have worked together for years.) I hovered in the background, watching the operation on one of the giant monitors suspended from the ceiling.
"We want holiday makers coming to our village to have a lovely time - they don't need that as a background smell, " he said.
Jury selection can be a long arduous process of selecting members from a larger pool, questioning of the jurors on their own background (nothing too probing) and whether they think they have any biases that would impact the case (previously being duped by a stock broker might get one out of serving in this trial).
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Now, experts will indeed have to have the background and widely recognized credentials concerning the subject about which they are testifying.
They figured that a young Latina with a background as a public defender would have no trouble winning in a gerrymandered district that was 60% Hispanic and in which Democrats boasted a 22-point registration advantage.
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Several conservative Democrats and centrist Republicans have said they wouldn't support Mr. Schumer's proposal to broadly expand background checks, but are open to considering a bipartisan compromise if one is reached.
Because the early universe is believed to have undergone a period of rapid inflation, features that were Planck-scale may have been magnified to the point where they are visible as blips in the cosmic microwave background, an electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang.
They are also likelier to have lower incomes in early adult life regardless of their skills or social background, something that may partly be the result of discrimination at work.
Once the Yankees look like the Yankees again, they will take their shot, with only one nagging question lingering in the background waiting to be answered: When they do return, will those aging stars have enough left to make a difference?
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