Some of the growth specialists with unremarkable backgrounds who managed to become chief financial officers in the 1990's yielded less than stellar results.
Still, Apple has taken executives in the past from unremarkable backgrounds and "made them rock stars," said Mr. Munster, pointing to Mr. Johnson, who had been an executive at Target when he was hired by Apple, as an example.
While they and their families go about their unremarkable business, background news bulletins provide glimpses of an escalating crisis.
From an unremarkable Sydney background he won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford and became a barrister.
A considerable number of Americans, most of them of unremarkable middle-class background, began to cultivate an aesthetic (eclectic, appreciative, amused, fickle, perverse) that had in the past belonged to a few privileged people.
Most of them are secretive, unremarkable, grey men, with backgrounds in the security services.
Some may look unremarkable, but with a little background it is possible to imagine Johnson's Austin through them.
Her Chronicles of Tornor novels (1979 80), the first of which won the World Fantasy Award, were among the first fantasy novels to have gay relationships as an unremarkable part of the cultural background, and included explicit and sympathetic depictions of same-sex love; the third novel is of particular lesbian interest.
On its face, Vayner's C.V. may be the world's greatest, which raises the question of why he's looking for an entry-level finance position — the fallback for so many unremarkable Ivy Leaguers who lack dual backgrounds in espionage and Eastern medicine.
His background medical history was otherwise unremarkable.
