Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female has from the beginning been not only the nurturer but also the inculcator in the young of complex social skills, the key to evolution. The female selects a male high enough on the dominance ladder to provide protection, yet friendly and cooperative enough for the purposes of raising offspring--a nice combination. Talk about women's wiles--the female arranges the circumstances to consummate the union, establish bonding and initiate ever increasing domestication of the male. Over countless generations under female tutelage, surviving offspring, male and female, became ever more intelligent and resourceful as well as more sensitive...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "If we take away the chance for a college education, we are pulling up the ladder of opportunity for millions of young Americans. I don't believe it's right when only the children of the wealthy have an opportunity to achieve their dreams...
...ways to replace the void with compassion. Disciplinary problems are just symptoms of a greater illness. Truancy ends where an incentive to attend school begins, not through tougher punishments. Attendance in body does not ensure fulfillment of the mind. It is only the first of many rungs on the ladder of education...
...coming weeks with industry leader G.M's. production threatened by a lengthening strike of auto workers at its Canadian plants. While layoffs have been avoided at GM for another few weeks, cuts in production appear imminent, and Chrysler executives are primed to make a run up the ladder. Layoffs resulting from the strike continued to spread Monday, with 5,911 workers affected at assembly and parts plants in the United States and Mexico. As the G.M. strike wears on, look for the two runners-up to step on the accelerator to try to fill the void...
...players on "The Real World" don't seem to have much direction. Why else would you go live in a house for five months? Shouldn't you get a job or something? But seriously.... This type sees the "Real World" stint as simply one more step in the career ladder. National TV exposure! A chance to influence the running of a small community! What more could a budding young member of Congress hope...