Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most important thing is to get women into the field. Through sheer numbers of women co-workers, the standards for what behavior is deemed acceptable will be raised. And in order to get more women involved in the near future, the presence of women higher up the corporate ladder has to be increased...
Cantwell goes from an entry level position at Mademoiselle, to copy editor at Vogue, to managing editor at Mademoiselle, and finally to the editorial board of the New York Times. As she climbs the ladder of the publishing world her memoir brings us along to fashion shows, to Paris and Jerusalem on business, to consciousness raising groups in the '60s and religious fanatic retreats in the '70s. It is a whirlwind trip, which Cantwell successfully carries on with compelling insights into her own life, and the society that surrounds...
...singed more than 4 sq mi. of Hiroshima reddish-brown. In the process, it left a bizarre photographic negative of the instant of destruction. Objects, human or inanimate, that came between the blast and other objects cast their shadows as unburned patterns on the protected space: a spiral ladder was imprinted on the surface of a storage plant behind it. Survivors foraging for food in vegetable gardens later that day dug up potatoes and found that they had been baked in the ground...
...where the boundaries were, knowing what was possible and what was not. There is nothing in the life of Colin Powell to suggest he would be the man to toss a grenade into the entrenched positions of American politics. On the other hand, Powell has bounded up the career ladder two and three steps at a time. He is a very determined...
LIBERAL CRITICS CHARGE THAT THE G.O.P. agenda is about to make the economic ladder even more slippery. "Republicans might actually be surprised to see that they are doing things that will provide less assistance to the working poor," argues Isaac Shapiro of Washington's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is about to release a report detailing the impact of the budget proposals on low-income families. "They are talking of substantially reducing the EITC. They are opposed to an increase in the minimum wage. What's gotten lost in the message is that the programs that offer assistance...