For example, in defending the ethical authenticity of Tom's pursuit of a career in medicine, one need not show that medicine is a career everyone must follow, but only that such a career makes sense, given Tom's personal background, talents, and desires.
Vladimir Potanin, an influential banker from a privileged Soviet background, talent-spotted him.
And Grant Wilfley Casting, also in Manhattan, had open calls for new background talent in February and March that yielded 1,500 and 1,300 people, respectively.
Luhrmann stressed that during the large, elaborate party sequences that have become characteristic of his work, he treats the background talent (AKA the extras) like actors in the film.
Managers at casting agencies around New York said they were seeing increasing numbers of people like Mr. Calabretta who have little experience in, or even aspirations for, acting, but are filling hours they used to spend at office jobs with gigs as extra, also called background, talent.
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Now, posing the issue this way and allowing the Law School to assert a special interest in "one particular type of diversity" invites the conflation of general diversity a diversity of opinions, experiences, backgrounds, talents, aspirations, and perspectives with ethnic and racial diversity that Justice Powell appeared strongly to resist.
The 2014 report Cracking the cultural ceiling: future proofing your business in the Asian century indicated that although 9.3% of the Australian labour force is Asian-born, only 4.9% make it to senior executive level and only 15% of Asian-background talent strongly agreed their organisation used its workforce cultural diversity to better service clients.
Insisting on anonymity, she said the branching of company functions seemed self-explanatory and gave many a clear idea of where their background and talents could take them in the future.
It is basically that in America, no matter what your background, your talents can take you to whatever level you deserve or sometimes higher.
Given higher education's protected interest in "diversity," and given that a student's race or ethnicity might add to diversity just in the same way that her age, work experience, family background, special talents, foreign language fluency, athletic prowess, military service, and unusual accomplishments might, Powell vacated that portion of the California Supreme Court's order.
