Word: careers
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...vote was also a setback for New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp, 43, who has staked his promising career on the issue of a sweeping 33% reduction in federal personal income taxes over a three-year period. Kemp argues that the cut would be such a spur to the nation's production that the Federal Government would soon recover much of the revenues lost by the cut -a prospect that critics sneeringly refer to as a "free lunch." Under Kemp's prodding, many G.O.P. candidates are seizing on the issue; this fall the Republican National Committee plans...
There are lots of good reasons for Kennedy's reluctance. He has a powerful Senate career in his grasp. And a challenge to Carter would focus attention on two extremely troublesome areas of his personal life: his wife Joan's health and, of course, Chappaquiddick...
...career takes off, Stoltzman is increasingly on the road, appearing with regional symphonies or with the TASHI Quartet, which he helped to organize. His ambition now is to do for the clarinet what Casals did for the cello: transform his instrument into an eloquent solo performer. "Last spring, when I was playing in Vancouver with the Amadeus Quartet," says Stoltzman, "a 90-year-old man came backstage and said, 'That's the first time the clarinet ever sounded human to me.' That's what I want-to make music that will liberate people." - Annalyn Swan
...scholars have high aspirations. "I love teaching, but being a junior administrator and lecturer is not a viable long-term career," says George Smith, 31, a history Ph.D. who has taught at Harvard for the last two years. "We see ourselves with a taste for power and money." The project supports those goals. "We want mainstream jobs for these people in channels that will take them to the top," says Co-Director Harrison...
Ph.D.'s are not the only folks who have to do some calculating about career plans. Continuing a trend that began about ten years ago, college graduates will face fierce competition through the mid-1980's for jobs in fields ranging from anthropology and labor relations to sociology and political science...