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I fully accept that Neil Kinnock has risen to high office but I'm not so sure about actual 'acheivement'.
Archive 2006-11-01 Glyn Davies 2006
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A 21st-Century Conflict: The Pursuit of Profit vs. the Life of the Mind standard-issue conservative polemic about how President Obama is punishing "acheivement" and destroying wealthy by restoring the Clinton-era top tax rate, offers this bit of evidence for his thesis: "
The New Republic - All Feed Jonathan Chait 2010
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A 21st-Century Conflict: The Pursuit of Profit vs. the Life of the Mind standard-issue conservative polemic about how President Obama is punishing "acheivement" and destroying wealthy by restoring the Clinton-era top tax rate, offers this bit of evidence for his thesis: "
The New Republic - All Feed Jonathan Chait 2010
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A 21st-Century Conflict: The Pursuit of Profit vs. the Life of the Mind standard-issue conservative polemic about how President Obama is punishing "acheivement" and destroying wealthy by restoring the Clinton-era top tax rate, offers this bit of evidence for his thesis: "
The New Republic - All Feed Jonathan Chait 2010
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Quite an acheivement – nobody else in history has managed to do that.
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How about acheivement and advancement based on your qualifications?
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Ain't no acheivement with all the commuting to work by airplane, i.e., minimum 2 flights per hour between DCA and New York.
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The unions work damn hard to convince teachers they're "gonna get screwed" so they can justify their union dues. you don't actually know why unions exist, do you? and do you know that "salaries and benefits" are only part of what they're "focused on"? but let's go with your theory. tell us, please, specifically: if unions ceased to exist tomorrow, how would that improve student academic acheivement?
High school dropout rate takes a leap (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I think I might choose to be from the little family and get the college education and the dance classes and the pony etc, rather than the huge family where one only gets handmedowns to wear, only gets meat once every other week and where finishing public school would be an acheivement.
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However, we do have a short story writer (and grant receiver) who has just won the Man Booker Prize for lifetime acheivement.
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