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...tuition hike at Harvard will probably be just one more rung on a never-ending ladder. Referring to 1972-73, Dunlop said yesterday, "If the costs continue to go up, we have no alternative but to raise the cost of tuition, also...
...feel better rested than I had at 11. Then he suggested that I should drive to the intersection of Olympic and Sepulveda boulevards, park at the southwest corner, blink my lights twice, and wait for a two-tone, 1954 Mercury sedan to come alongside. Then?−but he had rung...
...that matter, any obligations or visible attachments," he says. "The old, the ugly or the unwanted is simply made to disappear through a manhole." From the New Left comes the criticism that since the show's emphasis is on achievementlearning letters and numbersit is merely the bottom rung on the escalator to Charles Reich's Consciousness II. From the Old Guard comes the suspicion that the "switched-on" classroom is aimed at the eventual displacement of the teacher by an unsalaried cathode-ray tube...
Nationally, only nine per cent of women faculty members are professors, while 25 per cent of men hold that rank. Thirty five per cent of women are instructors, the lowest rung on the academic ladder, while only 16 per cent of the men hold this rank...
Anti-Liberation. So goes the catalogue of female complaints. With good reason. Professionally, European women firmly hold down the bottom rung of the ladder. Though every third woman works in Germany, only 3% of that nation's top jobs are held by women. In the exalted world of big business, the nearest thing to a tycoon is Beate Uhse and her sex shops. In England, for every 50 men earning ?5,000, there is only one woman. Out of a total of 2,448 practicing barristers, there are only 133 women. In Sweden, 53 women legislators...