Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women on their staffs. Every five years, beginning next year, department chairmen shall be required to report to the Permanent Committee through the Dean's office the reasons why each female research associate or fellow and each female lecturer, permanent and non-permanent, in that department holds an off-ladder rather than an on-ladder appointment...
...deeply entrenched in shellproof bunkers on the 95-mile Bar-Lev Line. Across the 200 yards of canal, the two sides keep constant watch on each other. The Israelis have built observation towers above the bunkers. The Egyptians occasionally drive a fire truck up to the canal, extend the ladder and clamber up to take a look at the Israeli side...
Salatich hadn't been having a good year before yesterday afternoon on the Concord Country Club course. He slowly slipped from number five to number seven on the Crimson ladder in the first four matches of the season. "It was the first time I've contributed to the five-man team score. I haven't done a damn thing before." Salatich said...
Columbia attempted to neutralize Harvard's strength at the bottom of the singles ladder by playing sophomore sensation Mark Massey at five and Ace Baumgold, last year's number three player...
...long history of evolution, 100 million species of plants and animals have inhabited the earth. Of these, 98% are now extinct, unable to survive the challenges of a changing environment. Man himself may face such a life-and-death test. Unlike his predecessors on the evolutionary ladder, he has the capability to meet it?and to fail it even more grandiosely than did creatures with lesser brains and imaginations...