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Despite his massive campaign machine and a boatload of endorsements. Walter Mondale has never been a particularly strong candidate. His career has been that of a dutiful, party, oriented politician who has moved patiently up the ladder. He is an organization man, the kind of politician who used to run for President back when the Chief Executive's most important job was administering federal patronage. In those days, the parties themselves placed the key role in turning out the vote, and the candidate's own personal its often became secondary...
...agreed, credible strategy. The gap between NATO's formal strategy and what the public will support has widened dangerously. The so-called flexible response devised in the 1960s remains NATO's official doctrine. It contemplates a defense of Europe that begins with conventional weapons and then goes up the ladder of nuclear escalation?until it reaches whatever level is necessary to halt Soviet aggression. In today's circumstances this doctrine has a fatal weakness: neither existing nor projected NATO conventional ground forces are adequate to repel a major Soviet
...bottom of the Crimson lineup could be key. Freshman Joe Dowling has been improving all season, and is now at the top of his game. He has worked his way up the Harvard team ladder and played for the first team in Cleveland, defeating his Mexican opponent in nationals...
...climbed step-by-step up the Harvard ladder from graduate student to teaching follow to 20th tenured woman professor. She says that although she has not felt discrimination as a woman, "I do feel the same sort of frustration that any woman feels when they are working in largely male contexts...
...government (No one has ever catalogued more than a few hundred). Another very large room will reveal 15,000 General Motors employees, whom G.M. 'itself never knew existed, slaving away on federal paperwork.' Posted across one wall will be the complete set of 44 OSHA regulations for climbing a ladder which Reagan alluded to in a 1978 speech. Up until now, the agency has only published and enforced...