Word: laddered
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Asian nations have tended to follow the Japanese export model of development, starting with labor-intensive manufacturing of low-cost items like shoes and garments, then moving up the high-tech ladder to refrigerators, TVs, vcrs and, eventually, computer components and software. North Korea doesn't have that luxury: it has no cash for capital investments and no private sector. South Korea has a unique opportunity to pump up North Korea's economy. Despite years of animosity, it is probably in the South's interest to facilitate the North's economic growth. "If North Korea collapses and forces premature unification...
...Holdsworth does give the old China hands their due, but Foreign Devils is at its best when it allows the missionaries who have made Hong Kong their calling or the Eurasians who have climbed the social ladder to tell their own stories. One glaring omission: despite Holdsworth mentioning that Filipinos are by far Hong Kong's largest expat group, she doesn't include a word from them...
Cambridge Emergency Management also responded to the threat, joining two companies of the Cambridge Fire Department, including ladder trucks and heavy rescue units...
...Ashcroft hearings also have been about this nexus between private behavior and public virtue. No one is claiming that Ashcroft himself is anything but a paragon of virtue in his private life. Judge Ronnie White, the black jurist blocked by Ashcroft from ascending the judicial ladder, says that he does not believe the man is a racist. But at some level, what irks Ashcroft's critics is that there is some discrepancy between his private virtue and his public life. He preaches tolerance in private but may not practice it in public. He preaches love of his fellow...
Cambridge Emergency Management also responded to the threat, joining two companies of the Cambridge Fire Department, including ladder trucks and heavy rescue units...