Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noting that an increasing number of residents are immigrants, Nze stresses their desires for upward mobility...
...pretty good right now (growth, unemployment, inflation, the deficit) and those for which the Republicans have nothing much to suggest (wage stagnation, middle-class angst), "character" is naturally a tempting theme. Part of the answer lies with the media. Skeptical scrutiny of Presidents, it seems, is on a permanent upward ratchet. This is a good thing, by and large, but rough on the incumbent. And part of the answer lies with Clinton himself. Not that his moral failings are worse than other politicians'. But his relative youth (which is not his fault) and his occasional callowness (which is) deprive...
...American Dream can be expressed with two words: equal opportunity. Sadly, this principle was subverted by more than 200 years of legal discrimination against blacks--from enslavement to Jim Crow and beyond. Their hopes for equal opportunity and upward mobility were rendered impossible...
...received two telephoned death threats after he began cooperating with investigators, has been reduced to traveling with a security guard, and another guard watches over his two young daughters. His corporate career in the biomedical field, which until he worked at B&W had been on a steady upward trajectory ("I wanted to be CEO of a company," he confesses), has foundered. His marriage hit the rocks owing, he says, to the stress of battling his former employer. Nevertheless, Wigand, 53, tells Time that now that he has begun to talk, he has no plans to stop. Though...
...only social conservatives who urge it. By now, almost everyone agrees that shame is socially indispensable--the individual's internal police department. Without a barrier of protective shame, the raw sewage of the country's id (pornography, crime, a general violent rottenness and social stupidity) seeps upward, into the ego and superego. A kind of moral imbecility smells up the public places. Life in America begins to look like a long afternoon of shameless, aberration-of-the-day television talk shows, tacky and moralistic by turn, the sleepwalking rhythms interrupted at precise intervals by bursts of bright commercial adrenaline...