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...many, not a privilege of the few," Angelides said in his speech at the gymnasium of the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, flanked by union members and various Democratic officials. "That dream is in jeopardy because hardworking, middle-class families are working longer for less [because of] stagnant salaries, soaring gas prices, higher tuition for their kids and higher healthcare costs. We need a governor who will restore the promise of middle-class opportunity... and put hardworking families first...
...China and North Korea fought against the U.S. and South Korea during the Korean War and were once famously said to be "as close as lips and teeth." But their longtime alliance has become increasingly strained as China modernized its economy and prospered while the North remained isolated and stagnant. "China and the D.P.R.K. have enormous mutual distrust in spite of the fact that they have an alliance on paper," says Michael Green, who was senior director for Asian affairs for the Bush White House's National Security Council and met with Chinese officials to talk about nuclear proliferation issues...
...picture perspective, is that there's a group of Americans who are doing extremely well, and that's a good thing. But there's a much larger group of middle-income and low-income families who aren't doing better; in fact they're doing worse. Their wages are stagnant, the cost of everything is skyrocketing - gas, health care, college. That kind of squeeze on middle-class families, which makes them vulnerable, is more intense for low-income families. Their income isn't going up. And the cost of everything they need just to survive is going up. It makes...
...institution, but Summers’ presidency provided two reasons why rapid change might work at the traditionally intractable Harvard. First, in 2001, rapid change was just what the presidential search committee was looking for and, seemingly, just what Harvard needed. After a decade in which the University was relatively stagnant in most respects other then its endowment figures and clandestine land-purchases in Allston, Harvard had much ground to make-up—the once-per-generation Harvard College Curricular Review and the largest physical expansion of Harvard’s in its history hung in the balance...
...DePaul on Nov. 18, Harvard found itself in an insurmountable 47-18 deficit at the half. At Virginia a few weeks later, the Crimson faced a 31-22 halftime hole in Charlottesville, and not even the momentum of a sustained second half run could bring Harvard back after a stagnant first half.“We’ve tried to iron [the slow starts] out,” said Delaney-Smith after the conclusion of the Ivy season. “I guess people would say that’s what an inexperienced team does. If you open...