Word: laddering
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Even when "non-ladder" faculty (lecturers) are included in the calculation, Harvard's student to faculty ratio of eight to one lags behind those of Yale (7:1) and Princeton...
...professor at the University of California, Berkeley, claims in his recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Despite all the fuss about some black teenagers' disparaging their more studious peers for "acting white," most of us, regardless of age or where we stand on the economic ladder, value high achievement as much as anyone. Our problem is not cultural. It's political and psychological. Too many of us have forgotten that we are still engaged in a struggle for racial redemption that involves, among other things, beating whites at their own game in the classroom as well...
...four hottest teams in the ECAC right now are St. Lawrence, Clarkson, Yale, and Princeton," Mazzoleni said. "If Yale sweeps and we lose, they get home ice. Princeton is looking to climb the ladder to get a better spot in the playoffs. At a minimum we need one point this weekend, but we have...
...heard all the talk about class warfare and this only benefiting the rich. I think when people take a good hard look at the rate reduction and who benefits and the fact that our plan... eases inequities in the tax code and that the bottom end of the economic ladder receives the biggest percentage cuts, people will come to realize it - I think it's important to cut all tax rates." - President George W. Bush, to reporters Monday...
...voters anyway. Al Gore's tax plan had more targets than a rifle range, and all it got him was a fast ticket home. Targeted cuts don't resonate with people who fill out their own tax returns either. Breaks that phase out as you go up the income ladder or are linked to the type of child care you choose, or whatever, complicate a code already so confusing that the IRS estimates it takes a record 13 hours, on average, to complete a 1040. So why do we have targeted tax breaks at all? Politics, of course...