Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still treated as second class scholars at every level of the University. Though several women faculty members have been appointed this year, they will still account for only 1.9 per cent of all tenured appointments. Most of the women teachers in the University are clustered around the off-ladder positions which seldom lead to professional advancement...
...should be added that Thomas' reaction to Ryan is atypical. Most division managers respect Ryan's capabilities and some of them even honored his request to refrain from saying anything substantial to the Crimson. Ryan started as a bartender his freshman year, and worked his way up the HSA ladder. He became the manager of the catering division, one of the agency's most profitable enterprises...
...1980s, and the first manned spacecraft from earth has finally landed on Mars after a five-month journey. The television camera shows two figures poised on the bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...isolated the little men first. When he won a first-degree murder conviction against one of the gunmen, he used it as a weapon to frighten others into talking. Faced with the possibility of the electric chair, three of the conspirators confessed, implicating officials higher up the union ladder. It was Huddleston's own daughter, Annette Gilly, a stooped and sad-faced housewife, who fingered him in the killing. In exchange she received a deal for a life sentence instead of death for her role as an accomplice. Huddleston was prompted to confess for the same self-serving reason...
From there, the pairings could be mismatches, since three remodeled squash players--Dave Sayward. Brian McDermott and Jeff Sawyer--plus football back Bob Blood hold down the three through six slots on the Amherst ladder. Unfortunately, the match will not count towards the EITA standings. But the travel expenses, at least, are minimal...