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...Carter Administration imposes the biggest tax hike in history and informs people they must do with less, asked Reagan: "Have they thought about those who've always had less, especially the minorities? This is like telling them that just as they step on the first rung of the ladder of opportunity, the ladder is pulled out from under them." The Republicans' message will be different: "We have to move ahead, but we're not going to leave anyone behind. I ask you to trust that American spirit which knows no ethnic, religious, social, political or economic boundaries...
Like the inmates of Orwell's barnyard, citizens of the Soviet Union enjoy vastly different degrees of power, privilege and material comfort, despite the country's egalitarian ideals. Soviet Communism has theoretically abolished hereditary classes, but it has neither uprooted the ladder of success nor stifled the urge to scale it. While there are obstacles to social mobility in the Soviet Union, those who make it to the top rely on the same factors that lead to success in the West: education, hard work, talent, connections-even corruption...
...while the armed forces are viewed as a good job opportunity in peacetime, in wartime that becomes an opportunity for death on the battlefield. You are going to have an understandable cry from minorities as well as those who don't believe that people lower on the economic ladder should bear a disproportionate amount of wartime deaths and casualties. I share this concern...
...business career will have to wait a while, but her whole life is not just golf--"If it were, I wouldn't have come here." She has full confidence she will eventually "climb the corporate ladder," and adds that "golf certainly helps, it's a very social game." Though golf has a lot to do with "shaping character," she insists she can live without it, and has no delusions about the stacked deck she must play with in her quest to be a pro golfer. "I think I'm one up on many women on the tour who bank...
...precarious position at best. The basic tenet that "to receive a promotion from assistant to associate professor at Harvard one must be tenurable at any major university" creates a situation in which departments are often reluctant to let their own junior Faculty move one rung up the tenure ladder...