Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reich, who would become Labor Secretary, and then enunciated in Clinton's book Putting People First. There the candidate declared, "While our global competitors invest in their working people, seven of every 10 dollars American companies spend on employee training goes to those at the top of the corporate ladder. High-level executives float on golden parachutes to a cushy life while hardworking Americans are grounded without the skills they need." After that, Clinton promised an "urgent" and "simple" solution: "We will require every employer to spend 1.5% of payroll for continuing education and training to all workers, not just...
...Jackie on killer stilts, Jackie jumping from a high ledge, Jackie battling in an aquarium stocked with great white (rubber) sharks. See, and marvel, as he fights off a dozen or so angry Chinese men; his only weapons are a card table, some folding chairs and a metal ladder that becomes his own personal jungle gym. "Director Stanley Tong doesn't have quite the camera savvy of an ace Hollywood action auteur," notes Corliss, "but when the star is in motion, defying gravity, physics and common sense, all reservations dissolve into awe at one man's grace and comic charm...
...investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners. The company named 38 new partner-managing directors to the post. Moral: on Wall Street as in sports, you can keep your stars only by paying at least as much as they might get to jump...
...State Department is the head of the U.S. foreign affairs team, which formulates, represents and implements the President's foreign policies. The Secretary of State is the highest ranking member of the department. That is, a woman today stands on one of the top rungs of the foreign policymaking ladder. If Albright had been born in the U.S., she would now be fourth in line for presidential succession. We have come a long way since weighing coins...
...Rescue $16; Discovery Toys; ages 3 to 5 The driver of this chunky little fire truck sways merrily enough as he's pushed along, but the real fun comes after the ladder is raised and the truck opens like a suitcase to reveal a treasure chest of little knobs and handles to push, pull and turn, all with appropriately satisfying whirs and clicks. Kids provide the siren...