But did this poor Coney Island schnook -- who ran off to World War II, flew 60 bombing missions over Italy and then came home to marry the girl of his dreams -- have the character to withstand the changes that were ahead when Catch-22 turned this teacher, ad-man, father of two and modest Upper West Sider into a big-shot?
"We're trying to get ahead of the changes that are rumbling through the entire industry, and envision what the enterprise needs to look like on a sustainable basis, rather than always playing catch-up," Mr. Hiller said.
Such lopsided access to gateways of opportunity and power — say, with whites being severely underrepresented at schools like Harvard — has the potential to fuel dangerous resentment and disturb social peace, at least if the change occurs too far ahead of demographic changes that are projected to make whites a minority in this country in less than three decades.
Bosses have failed to plan ahead for big changes that are needed to hospital services with no clear plan for which services might be cut or reorganised.
Bosses failing to plan ahead for big changes that are needed to hospital services with no clear plan for which services might be cut or reorganised.
Other factors he cited were changes in the city's economy that were ahead of the rest of the country, like the rise in corporations using temporary or contract workers.
We had our introduction that Sunday afternoon, and amid laughter and a bit of fear and excitement, the 40 or so of us prospective yoga teachers had no idea of the growth, change, and unraveling that was ahead of us.
Such notions, he says, "are intended to make people think conceptually, and not incrementally, about the changes that may be ahead".
Mr. Cortiñas employs a classic cliché to signal that changes are ahead for all these people: a storm is coming.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of umbrella group for higher education, Universities UK, said: "While it is quite clear that changes are ahead, there is still a great deal of uncertainty as to the level of student demand and for which courses, and the extent to which students will take out student loans.
