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Instead of hopping onto the corporate ladder, this year an increased number of graduating seniors are interested in working in public service, nonprofit organizations and governmental jobs, Leape said...
...Harvard that Stockman mounted the first rung on the the ladder up to his current, ridiculously well-paid position with the head gnomes of Wall Street, Salomon Brothers. In the late '60s, Stockman, like many WASPs of his time, was in hiding from the Vietnam war. A self-professed leftie, Stockman chose the Harvard Divinity School as his hideout, but he soon fell under the sway of the smell of power...
Middle-class baby boomers are overtaking the rich and elderly as the primary clients. Typically, 25 years ago, three-quarters of the customers were the wives of executives. Now half the women guests are themselves high up on the corporate ladder. They can afford the steep tariff, generally $1,500 to $3,000 a week, and consider it a necessity to get away when they are feeling frayed. Explains Michele Roskov, 27, a TV and film producer in Los Angeles: "It is an appointment with myself. The rest of the year is spent on appointments with everyone else." Another change...
Futrell, whose NEA is the nation's predominant teachers' union, approved of the teacher-centered thrust of the report. But, though a task-force member, she expressed doubts about the pay system and the lead-teacher concept. She feared that they might "become another merit pay or career ladder plan, those plans having been seriously flawed and having failed in many instances in the past." Ultimately, the attitude of experts like Futrell may be the key to the Carnegie program's success or failure. For just as teachers are central to the study's implementation, they will also determine whether...
...moment of anxiety for the bandits occurred when, while still unscrewing a bolt, one of them realized that the bell was scheduled to ring in just 30 seconds. The two scampered partway down the tower's ladder, waited for the bell to stop ringing, and finished...