Krueger's conclusion: "[The US] has reached the point that inequality in incomes is causing an unhealthy division in opportunities, and is a threat to our economic growth.
The accents of TV and radio presenters may have changed, and social snobbery may have become no more than an indicator of stupidity and insecurity, but the same division of opportunity – cruel and unquestioned – remains.
The quadrennial political conventions have traditionally served as a kind of national show-and-tell for the broadcast network news divisions, an opportunity for news stars to roam the convention floors for immense blocks of prime time and impress viewers with the breadth and depth of their political reportage.
As well as promotion and relegation between the divisions, the opportunity to qualify for the European Championships is intended to make the League of Nations competitive.
It has set up a "virtual" neuroscience unit, which relies on external deals and partnerships, as well as a new opportunities division to find new uses for molecules that have been scrapped during the drug discovery process.
Clive Morris, head of the new opportunities division at AstraZeneca, says medicines that have already been in clinical trials can skip the early phase of drug development and go straight into phase two (mid-stage) trials, which can save three to five years.
The company said it would sell off its Hummer and Saab brands, shrink its Pontiac brand into a niche vehicle division, and explore opportunities to sell, close or consolidate the Saturn brand that — when it was started in the 1980s — was supposed to be G.M.'s answer to the smaller, fuel-efficient cars sold by Japanese competitors.
Clifton Poodry, head of the division of Minority Opportunities in Research at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences NIGMSS), was born on the Tonawanda Seneca Indian Reservation in Buffalo, New York, for example, and spent 2 decades as a successful academic researcher before joining NIH.
NIH is looking for a handful of researchers "willing to try something that would really change the game," says Clifton Poodry of the division of Minority Opportunities in Research within the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which will manage the program.
Neither party has done enough to address these morally complex issues but worse is that some politicians seek to use these issues as tools of division instead as opportunities for reform and reconciliation.
