That background may help provide a bit of context for Lane's new book, "The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane," since the former editor goes out of his way to skewer his former enemies and colleagues, including Dykstra.
That Credit Suisse's boss, Brady Dougan, has an investment-banking background may help to explain why it has done a better job.
In addition to predicting risk for diabetes or related complications, a more detailed understanding of an individual's genetic background may help guide treatment.
Further along, he believes that there is a lot of undiscovered startup talent out there, and at least in one case his partner's own background may help them in this respect: "There is a surprising number of good companies in Italy," says Earner.
This indicates that knowledge of the biological background may help to identify those screen-detected breast cancers at such a low risk of recurrence that concerns about overdiagnosis can be raised.
Mr Abdullah, whose hair is fast turning grey, says "our entire exercise is in not giving these people a trigger to start the protests again".The wider background may help.
Along the way, I realized that my background may help underrepresented minority students find their way into scientific careers, and I developed a deep desire to guide them.
That background may help explain why so much talent is concentrated in this family.
His theater background may help account for the consistently fine acting in his films, while his staging of Wagner may explain the wonderful fearlessness with which he embraces melodramatic excess.
He also seems to embrace the perception that his business background may help him solve the state's shortfall -- although that may only raise expectations and increase the blowback if the deficit fix comes up short.
