Word: laddered
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Further down the ladder of Convention prestige (which hinges less on impressiveness of job title than on the lavishness of the parties the conventioneer can enter) is Brian J. Shortsleeve '95, a volunteer doing security work. Shortsleeve, who is working in Massachussetts Sen. John F. Kerry's office this summer, was given a blue blazer and told to direct traffic on the convention floor. Sean M. Becker '94 and Neil A. Cooper '91 are also working in convention security...
...scales. By some estimates, fully a quarter of the nation's hospital beds are occupied by schizophrenia patients. Many are chronic abusers of drugs and alcohol, the result of desperate attempts to medicate themselves. The illness can therefore become a one-way ticket to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. A third of America's homeless are afflicted, as are about 3% of prison inmates and nearly 6% of those in maximum-security facilities (compared with 1% of the general population). The disease takes a mortal toll as well. About 1 in 4 schizophrenics attempts suicide; 1 in 10 succeeds...
...does Duffy. When she joined TIME in 1960 as a researcher, institutional tradition suggested that her climb up the editorial ladder would stop there. But later she became a writer, concentrating primarily on cultural subjects and book reviews, and in 1974 was among the first women to be named a senior editor. Over the next 15 years, she applied her formidable insights and delicate editing touches to the cultural sections of the magazine, all the while quietly carving a path for other women to follow. Three years ago, Duffy decided that she wanted to return to her first love, writing...
...shelf of books on Frances Lear's lurid life. Adopted by a vindictive mother and molested repeatedly by a stepfather, she later had three marriages (one to TV producer Norman Lear), countless affairs, numerous addictions and bouts of therapy. Yet she managed to climb the garment-industry ladder and found Lear's magazine. So why does THE SECOND SEDUCTION (Knopf; $19) seem so enervating at a mere 190 sparsely printed pages? For one thing, she never describes the horrors of drugs or the excitement of creating a magazine. For all her vaunted feminism, she is too absorbed in self-pity...
...welfare systems to the breaking point. The racial climate has worsened because of white fears of black criminals and disputes over affirmative action. Beyond that are large social and economic trends: the loss of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that gave many blacks their first step up the economic ladder, and the flight from the inner city to the suburbs of both black and white middle-class families, leaving behind ever more concentrated populations of the desperately poor...