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...first class, the Managerial-Professional, consists of the white-collar workers. If the size of the Managerial-Professional class is large, or growing rapidly, then the urban system has provided or is providing a high degree of upward mobility to those in the next class down, Labor. Large numbers of managers are created by the growing number of commercial enterprises during the city's period of economic stagnation, however, the Managerial class declines in size as fewer new firms come into the city and what previously had been New Enterprise becomes Mature Business. And if the managerial class is declining...
...Dirty Float. Connally invited the other nations to let impersonal market forces do what many governments have found politically impossible: revalue their currencies upward against the dollar to the full extent deemed necessary by the U.S. Major IMF members are moving toward agreement on new exchange rates. Yet because their goods might thus become permanently more expensive in the U.S. and other markets, few nations have allowed the full change to occur. Even after many world currencies were floated against the dollar in August, governments instructed central banks to buy the dollar with their own currencies if their value rose...
...power, equivalent to the wallop of 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs. Literally a huge heat engine, a hurricane is formed by spirals of warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves and add to the storm's fury by drawing still more moisture from...
...program says that Earthlight is "an expression of human radiance" meant to invoke "the forces that push upward out of the earth toward the light." Promises of this sort usually guarantee an uninspiring evening, but for once the religious tone is somewhat justified. Earthlight is meant more as a ceremony anyway. It wants to turn the audience on and the evening I saw it something obviously touched the audience besides the actors' hands. In the end almost everyone--performers and viewers--huddled on stage to rock in rhythm to the band's final number without any concerns about the theatricality...
...Upward Bound--Harvard Upward Bound staff has as its goals to be of assistance to students enabling them to graduate from high school and to provide support in the application process for post-secondary schools...