Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like building anything: You do it better with the right tools. Sure, we can stand on each others' shoulders to build a wall with a hammer, a few nails, and some scrap wood. But wouldn't the wall be stronger if we had power tools, screws, drywall and a ladder? Until a previously underrepresented group achieves a critical mass within a representative body, important issues are left untouched. We saw this in Congress with the 1992 elections. Remember "The Year of the Woman"? Well, it wasn't until the newly elected women joined their House colleagues (to make a still...
This Methuselahan march up the demographic ladder also poses a challenge to the youth worshippers in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue who have grown accustomed to targeting audiences between the ages of 18 and 49. "We have the entire marketplace in a ridiculous state of denial, and it's costing companies, advertisers and marketers billions of dollars," says gerontologist Ken Dychtwald, founder of the California company Age Wave and a Pied Piper of marketing to those older than...
...Moving up the ladder: The Justice Department turns to Clinton in its "soft money" probings (TIME Daily...
...addition, my brief discussions of Lizzie Borden and William Faulkner, made me remember how luxurious interaction with teachers can be. Forgetting my status on the bottom rung of the Harvard academic ladder, I traded scholastic insights with a professor, something I had never anticipated doing as a first-year. I was even accepted to one of the seminars...
...famous for drinking games that make a sport of quick and excessive consumption. Bars in college neighborhoods pull in students with all-you-can-drink policies--$6.50 for as much beer as a customer can hold--that make binge drinking a cost-effective strategy. With "beat the clock" and "ladder pricing," the prices start low and increase as the night wears on, encouraging students to drink fast while the booze is cheap. And bar owners are constantly thinking up new binge-friendly promotions, like "bladder busts," in which drinks are inexpensive until someone...