11.   The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility.

12.   Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility.

13.   And upward mobility is the American way.

14.   Athletes will have to assume a dramatically more aggressive role to insure their upward mobility.

15.   A common indictment of public schools is that they no longer offer upward mobility to most immigrants.

16.   Affirmative action has no doubt accelerated the upward mobility of some whose race or ethnicity might otherwise have held them back.

17.   Bush, the two-term governor of Texas, even echoes the traditional Democratic rhetoric of giving disadvantaged Americas a leg up on the ladder of upward mobility.

18.   But blacks in other cities appear to be migrating to the suburbs in a pattern of upward mobility.

19.   But inside Russia, where benefiting from government funds has been a traditional path to upward mobility, the reaction has been rather quiet.

20.   But prostitution is now an instrument of upward mobility.