Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luxury goods, without resolving any of the serious issues that face our country. The past seven years have produced tremendous financial gains. It is now time to use that money on those who need it. The bull market has placed the United States at the top of the financial ladder. Perhaps now, we can turn our attention to those who were left behind...
...Modernization Act for everyone. Individuals should end up getting faster answers and better rates on things like home mortgages and insurance, and corporate clients will be able to issue stock and buy directors' insurance with a single call. One-stop shopping for financial services up and down the customer ladder is mainly what this bill is about. Yes, you've heard it before, and, yes, it failed miserably in the 1980s. (Remember Sears, which added another dimension--buy stocks where you buy socks?) But with the government's stamp of approval on Citigroup's no-limit money enterprise, that model...
Within two minutes, three engines full of water and two ladder trucks packed with prongs and hooks cluttered Winthrop, JFK and Dunster Streets...
...Burnham's wife (Annette Bening), on the other hand, has taken a career-centered path to happiness, hoping to gain power and meaning by climbing up the real-estate business ladder. She sacrifices everything for career and seems to resent her daughter and husband, whose existences have impeded her upward mobility. This, too, of course, leads not to happiness but only more frustration and more powerlessness...
Ever since she was appointed an assistant professor (the lowest rung in the professorial ladder of assistant, associate, and full professorships) in 1980, Geller's tenure has been a point of contention...