Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Viewing the results, McLaughlin declared that the movement of one group of women up the economic ladder leads to the economic exploitation of another group. Says she of the professional women: "Probably their own freedom is so new that they do not yet think of themselves as employers-a role that until recently was thought to be almost exclusively reserved...
...does. Those students who are aware of it have a sense that the Corporation is a powerful group, wielding ultimate authority in a far-flung and decentralized bureaucracy in which no one claims to hold power. Yet Corporation members themselves insist they are just another rung in the bureaucratic ladder and that their business is by-and-large routine and trivial...
...composed of Harvard faculty, students, and employees. Tenants got representation on the committee only after lobbying by students--but Harvard still did not recognize RTH as a legitimate community organization. The establishment of a special subcommittee to deal with RTH only made matters worse. "These committees, this bureaucratic ladder appears to have been set up solely to insulate the community from the persons with the authority to negotiate our future," RTH complained...
...make use of her spare time and her warehouse full of Italian marbles and build a palace on the newly land-filled Fenway. She changed blueprints daily for five years, infuriating her architects. She was so picky about details that, although in her late 60s, she climbed up a ladder in her central court to blend the exact shade of yellow-pink she wanted...
...Sprague: "We will show how a family named Yablonski was murdered. The defendant here is the man who used the money from the United Mine Workers, from the sweat and blood of the miners of America, to pay for these murders. We will go step by step up the ladder until we get to the top, to this defendant, sitting in this courtroom...