Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson continued winning down the singles ladder, as sophomore Philip Tseng beat Penn State's Michael Greiser. Greiser posed little challenge for Tseng, who won in straight sets...
Battling the fire required ten Cambridge pumping engines and five hook-and-ladder trucks. They were aided by two engines from the Somerville and Boston fire departments...
...loan officer at a local bank. On paper, he is listed as management. But there may be some title inflation here: a recent Department of Labor report found some 16 million people listed as managers, executives or administrators, which means most of them must be fairly far down the ladder. And that really describes Paul. His problem is that in the last year, half the people in his department have been...
...questions that appear on the screen. Credit reports are then factored in, after which the software says yes or no. Only if it prints out maybe is Paul's input needed, and this seems to be happening less and less. Nor do things look better higher up the ladder: his bank is in the midst of being absorbed by an out-of-state firm with a reputation for thinning executive ranks. Paul, a college graduate, never thought he might one day be applying for jobless benefits. His father spent his entire career in the same company, where his security...
DIED. RICHARD VERSALLE, 63, tenor; of an apparent heart attack; at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Poised on a ladder, Versalle was performing the opening scene of The Makropulos Case when he was stricken and fell to the stage. He had just sung the line, "You can only live so long...