Word: laddered
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...under way in the House of Representatives, where GOP leaders were giving up their committee chairs. The shakeup marks a stark departure from years of tradition - for as long as the modern House has existed, representatives in the controlling party have bided their time, inching up the leadership ladder toward their ultimate reward: A committee chairmanship...
...Director of studies is not a ladder faculty position," said Lynne B. Layton, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at the Harvard Medical School, who writes feminist cultural criticism. "A move to a tenured faculty position is in academia a move...
...school, floating through oil busts, a cutup during the first 20 years of a checkered career, Jeb was the good son who worked hard and played by the rules. As his dad advised, Jeb made his fortune before making a bid for office, and meanwhile slowly climbed the party ladder in South Florida. But fate is fickle, and W.'s career, which really didn't begin until he gave up drinking in his 40s, took off suddenly when he got control of the Texas Rangers. Party elders started urging him to run for Governor. Jeb had already decided...
...conjoining planets: the Science Center observatory. Entrance requires a sticker of authorization or a friend with a sticker, but once inside, the dome opens, the tall creaking ladder slides loudly around in the dark, and the heavy telescope swings slowly on its ropes towards the tiny points of light. Best visited on a clear night when the moon is not too full, as its brightness will absorb everything else...
...view, the advent of the fully creative machine will not arrive overnight but will continue to evolve in stages, as machine intelligence continues its progression up the skill ladder. The first computers were designed during World War II with pen on paper and assembled by hand with screwdrivers and wiring tools. Today a computer designer sits at a graphics terminal and specifies sets of high-level design parameters. The computer performs dozens of intermediate design stages of circuit schematics, board layouts and even the chips themselves. Then other computers actually build and assemble these components into working systems. The tasks...