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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's a case of old-fashioned hard work," Cornell Coach Brian McCutcheon said, explaining his team's climb up the ECAC ladder. "Everyone has pulled together...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Race Begins | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...parents. Experts think such violence is caused by stress, a history of abuse or an obsessive need for control. Says Author Fedders: "Rich men like to have the control at home that they get elsewhere. There's very little difference between the stress of a man climbing the corporate ladder and the stress on a guy who's out of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Home Is Where the Hurt Is | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Freshmen Daphine Onderdonk and Stephanie Clark have both cracked the starting ladder, playing sixth and seventh respectively...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Not Poor Sisters | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Dick Gephardt:Young Man In a Hurry | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Carnegie Study: Colleges Do Not Stress Teaching | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

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