Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson also swept to easy wins at the bottom of the ladder, Steve Mead winning 15-9, 15-10, 10-15, 15-9 at number-eight and Cass Sunstein taking three straight games, 15-8, 15-6, 15-5, at number-nine...
...Crimson line-up will be identical to the one used most of the season, except for the possible absence of virus-stricken Arch Gwathmey, the team's number-four player. If Gwathmey does not compete, everyone in the lower half of the ladder will move up one notch, and Cass Sunstein will play number nine...
...becoming more rootless? Definitely not, answers Professor Stephan Thernstrom in his most recent book, The Other Bostonians. America has always been an extremely fluid society, even including its non-growing Eastern cities such as Boston. While 19th century transients may on the whole have been lower on the social ladder than their present-day counterparts, they were at least as numerous...
While the difficulties faced by most foreign immigrants and their descendants lessened in time, certain ethnic groups were much less able than others to adapt to Boston, and found themselves stuck at the bottom of the economic ladder. The Irish and the Italians were distinctly less upwardly mobile than other immigrant groups. On the other hand, 75 per cent of all second-generation Russian-Americans--many of whom were Jewish--finished their careers in white collar jobs...
...even less promising as the nation drifts into an economic downturn and possibly a recession. The CEA notes that in a recession, low-paid workers with minimal skills are usually laid off first-or work fewer hours per week. Even though those at the bottom of the income ladder have not gained on those at the top, they are better off. In 1972 a total of 12% of the population were classified as living in poverty...