At the outset, after some hokey anecdotes about American workers — a teacher, an autoworker, a farmer — Obama made a clear statement about his policy goals for the year, a basket of ideas "to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class".
Score: 2 2014 State of the Union: What I offer tonight is a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class.
Last year, the president described his annual address as one that would include "a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class".
But what I offer tonight is a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class.
Here is the first appearance of the "ladders of opportunity" line – and the president's first mention of his intention to take unilateral action, Congress be darned: But what I offer tonight is a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class.
Noting that inequality has deepened and upward mobility stalled, he would offer "a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class".
Livestock and poultry can receive antibiotics for various reasons besides illness, including speeding up growth of the animals ("growth promotion"), and preventing disease ("disease prophylaxis").
Yes, it is the advice we often don't want to hear but nearly always get; exercise is beneficial to your health in dozens of ways, including thickening your hair and speeding up growth time.
Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value.
