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Some of his stances reinforce lingering qualms that he is driven primarily by a desire to leap to the top of the ladder. Many of the causes he has embraced, like revitalizing education, are apple-pie issues that provoke little dissent. Others, such as his opposition to the colorization of Hollywood films, can be ridiculed as merely trendy. More significantly, he has edged leftward from his moderate moorings (he was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group) as he plays to the liberal activists who dominate the Iowa caucuses. He has reversed his support of tuition...
...These institutions are at the top of theprestige ladder and they are most likely to bewatched and emulated," Boyer said. "If theyneglect good teaching, other institutions arelikely to undervalue it as well...
...have to climb up a 30-foot ladder and then drop yourself into a hatchway in order to get in, so it is hard to get in," Curtin said...
After learning about the South and civil rights in school, I was thrilled to finally be able to meet Black women climbing high on the ladder of success...
Aspiring CEOs will delight in the fast-paced corporate odyssey of Michael J. Fox, who stars as Brantley Foster in The Secret of My Success. The film resembles a financial fantasy from the mind of Alex P. Keaton, Fox's Family Ties character, with Brantley blasting up the corporate ladder in a relative nanosecond. With creativity as his only asset, Brantley parlays his way from the mailroom to the boardroom of his uncle's conglomerates...