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...sign of discrimination at the portals of colleges and universities would be particularly alarming to Asian immigrants, because they almost universally see their children's future in terms of higher education. In part, this blind faith in academic achievement stems from the normal yearning of all immigrants to bootstrap their families into the comforts of middle-class American life. But it also bespeaks a deeper ethic permeating many Asian societies. Says Yong-Il Yi, 55, a New York City real estate broker from Seoul: "In Asia, if you don't have a higher education, you are a second-class citizen...
Despite the merger activity, Taylor insists that Continental still hopes to remain independent. "That is our top priority," he said, "and we are aggressively pursuing that option." A bank task force nicknamed Operation Bootstrap has been devising strategies. One possibility: sell Continental's $2.3 billion in bad loans to investor groups and pump the cash back into the bank...
...urges customers: "Be pure, natural, beautiful with Vitamin E cream!" Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has launched a new line of "all natural" dog food, which is the regular line bereft of additives, and Weleda, Inc., of Spring Valley, N.Y., sells "an all-natural, non-aerosol spray deodorant." Bootstrap Press of Glendale, Calif., offers a book that teaches "the deep natural breathing you were born with...
...with the U.S. That assessment became the platform of the Popular Democratic Party he formed in 1938. Over eight years as Senate President under U.S.-appointed Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell and later as the territory's first elected Governor, Muñoz effected an economic miracle with "Operation Bootstrap," a series of programs that brought electricity and schools to the countryside and offered tax exemptions to American companies opening plants on the island. His proudest moment came in 1952, when Congress granted Puerto Rico commonwealth status, giving it more autonomy and entitling it to federal grants without extracting income...
Johnson, grandson of a Mississippi sharecropper, has long been a leading example of black capitalism at its bootstrap best. His Chicago-based firm held about 60% of the black hair-care market. His Ultra Sheen No-Base hair relaxer was the first product to contain a protective cream that shielded the scalp against powerful acids. Advised that patenting the new product could take two years, Johnson decided to put it directly on the shelf in 1965, without that legal protection...