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...interest groups proliferated, they jostled each other at the federal trough. Blacks, women, the handicapped, the elderly, all demanded more of "their share." The established groups, particularly labor, tried to pull up the social ladder behind them, protecting high wages and benefits. The $12-an-hour white construction worker bitterly resented welfare "handouts" to unmarried black mothers. He feared affirmative-action quotas that threatened his job security. He worried about taxes, crime and mortgage rates. He believed that Government largesse was eroding America's self-reliance, American independence. These were middle-class concerns-Republican concerns...
...fellow from 1955 to 1957. And in 1957, he joined Boston-based Gillette as a comptroller staff assistant for insurance matters--beginning a long climb which culminated in a heady nine-year whoosh to the top from the office of treasurer. He took five big steps up the corporate ladder from 1967 to 1971, became president and chief operating officer in 1974, and finally chairman...
...tightly knit, carefully planned work that uses visual, verbal and musical images the way Wagner used leitmotivs: to unify and clarify complex relationships among ideas and to weave of his various strands a single tapestry. The tree of the first "knee play" is transformed into the astronauts' ladder and finally into the oaken Lincoln of the last act. The detritus of war - the toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city of Cologne - is swept away by the final "knee play" as a new tree grows from the pages of a book. Wilson's dream world...
Another argument supporting high pay is that it provides incentives for climbing the corporate ladder. Employees need to be rewarded for struggling up through the hierarchy. Companies as large as GM or Exxon have some 20 levels of management, and the side effect of creating salary differentials among those levels is to push executives at the top into very high compensation brackets...
...executive presence exhibit a purposeful style and confident mannerisms that give the impression of control. When they walk into a crowded room, they naturally command the respect and attention of those around them. That intangible quality is in demand by business people who want every advantage in climbing the ladder to success...