Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would remain. As she told TIME's Arthur White: "I'm not getting a divorce. I'm trying to save our marriage. I've had a happy married life for a long time. I worked while he went to law school. We climbed the ladder together. We achieved the impossible dream [the governorship...
Jimmy Breslin is like a firetruck. When he starts to talk, you have to hang on for all you're worth to keep from being thrown off and left behind. He runs through topics and opinions faster than a hook and ladder runs stoplights...
...countries of our continent. Those young old people believe that the university has been created to train technicians and they think that they should be satisfied with merely acquiring a professional title. The degree gives them social status and boosts them on their way up the social ladder. Caramba, how terribly dangerous, the degree is, an instrument that gives them more income and better living conditions than the majority of the rest of our fellow citizens...
...page report has "more basic information and better statistics" than any of the commission's 19 previous studies, says Kerr, former president of the University of California. Women continue to constitute "the largest unused supply of superior intelligence in the United States." With each step up the academic ladder, their participation decreases. Women are 50.4% of high school graduates, 43% of college graduates, but only 13% of those receiving doctorates. Less than one-fourth of all college-level faculty members are women, only 8.6% full professors. The gap between the sexes in faculty salaries for comparable positions averages...
...graduates, glamour fields include management consulting, land development, banking and finance. In those fields, M.B.A.s tend to start fairly high on the ladder, gain responsibility quickly and move ahead fast. But there is a decline of interest in that old M.B.A. watering hole, Wall Street, where hours are long and profits shortening. In fact, says Robert Flanagan, chief recruiter for Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. management consultants: "It's very tough to get people to consider coming to New York City for anything...