Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollings, 76, doesn't think he should be scrapping with Inglis at all. He has done everything a Senator is supposed to, climbing the ladder of seniority over 32 years to become one of the most powerful in his party. He helped rewrite the nation's telecommunications laws and is among the country's most ardent advocates of fair trade. Most of all, though, he has pulled off the trick of earning a reputation as a fiscal conservative while delivering federal goodies to South Carolina: money to deepen the Charleston Harbor, new veterans' clinics and a map full of roads...
...regale in details about the BFD's stick work, their heroic rescues of man and animal. Walking down Newbury Street on a cold Friday night, we follow the screams of Ladder 15 and Engine 33 as they investigate smoke from a building on Comm...
Along with the Nevin's Trophy team event was the Coast Guard eliminations, a regatta geared towards individual finishes. In a ladder-draw-style event, captain Pete Strothman, an All-America selection, took first in his single-handed eight-race event. Strothman won the event handily, justifying his billing as a national contender...
...they become adults. Since the work ethic is often learned from parents, more work and less welfare-program participation by parents will discourage children from going on welfare. The real bridge to the 21st century is jobs that teach welfare recipients the skills they need to move up the ladder to self-sufficiency. So long as the bridge isn't roadblocked by government wage and tax policies that destroy entry-level jobs, this success will be passed on to future generations. THOMAS K. DILWORTH, Research Director Employment Policies Institute Washington...
...less than a new economic order, a Net Economy! whose exclamation point came last week, when shares of Yahoo surged to more than $200 (closing at $181 on Friday), making billionaires of two young men who just a generation ago would only be beginning their climb up the organization ladder...