Word: laddered
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...upside is that such a tax cut goes to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder - even those who don't make enough to pay income taxes chip in a slice of their wages for those entitlements. Those are the people who missed the boom and are getting hurt most by the bust - and, some economists say, they're the people most likely to spend the money and keep the economy above water until businesses start making capital investments again...
...urging him to concentrate on his studies. But he phoned one of the agencies and ended up doing a soap commercial. "Only my body was shown," he says. An agent later suggested he try movies, so he went for an audition. He got the part and has climbed the ladder to stardom, usually playing handsome teenyboppers. "That good-looking face," he says, "can become a handicap, at least in acting...
...couple of weeks ago, the New York Times ran a photo of author and historian William Manchester on Page One. His face was the image of despair--diluted blue eyes, a ladder of creases on his forehead--though if one did not read the story that the photo illustrated, it might have appeared that Manchester had been caught at a moment of alert creativity. The story, however, was about his inability to create, to write. At age 79, paralyzed in his left leg by two strokes suffered after his wife's death in 1998, he finds that he cannot complete...
...Disney and its gang - and Comcast, not to be counted out by any means - the upside of a marriage is pretty much the same: all of Lord Armstrong?s lands and a big step up on the ladder to the content-and-technology, one-stop-shopping convergence heaven everybody swears is the future of broadband...
...billion over the last 25 years - to a net financial contributor, thanks to its booming economy. It would be a harsh result for the poor countries of Eastern Europe that are desperate to join the E.U., though hardly a first, if a prosperous Ireland chose to pull up the ladder behind itself...