Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think will keep his job and who will lose it? Those likely to win out are the more desirable, educated workers--the young college student paying his way through school. Who will lose it? The less-educated, less-skilled, less-privileged minority kid struggling to get on the job ladder...
According to the report, the various faculties monitor the applicant flow for all faculty positions. They prepare special reports whenever a minority or a woman is on the final list but is not hired for a senior faculty or ladder faculty position. These reports are forwarded to the Governing Boards for review before the announcement is made...
Over the past year, the Public Policy Institute at Radcliffe College has been studying the work-family conundrum. The project, called the New Economic Equation, conducted focus groups around the country with men and women on all rungs of the socioeconomic ladder. Last week the institute held a two-day conference to review the findings and propose solutions...
...treatment plant is inadequate, the District has issued several advisories in the past year cautioning residents to boil water before drinking it. The city has shut down two fire companies in the past 18 months, and three more are targeted to close. Only 12 of the department's 16 ladder trucks are operating...
...Harvard-Yale rivalry, it was based on what the author felt were legitimate distinctions between the two types of students. At one point, she suggested that "when it comes down to it, homo crimsonus is a different species from homo eli. The former stands one rung higher on the ladder of self motivation." While the author continued on to modify her position and offer several persuasive arguments, this remains a very arrogant statement and indicative of the article's general...