Word: laddered
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...moments. People really treat this with incredible respect. The mission of StoryCorps is to celebrate and honor each other's lives through listening and we've recorded interviews with every kind of person you can imagine, every age group, every part of the country, every part of the socioeconomic ladder, and across the board people have been wildly respectful of this. I think they see how seriously we take the interview process and they take it even more seriously...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently received a rare and unusual donation, including a paint-spattered hat, a pair of shoes, and a ladder. In addition to these objects, the gift included materials like brushes, paints, models, and preliminary works that once belonged to the influential Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman’s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which...
...Despite creating ripples in the business world of late, India was nearly last in your competitiveness ranking. This is because India has not bridged the huge gap between the haves and the have-nots. Countries like India should emphasize economic equality so that they can climb the global business ladder. K. Chidanand Kumar, Bangalore, India
With an improvised ladder and injuries in key places, along with freshman Richard Hill competing internationally at the South East Asia Games, the Harvard win was even sweeter...
...much of the global-entertainment menus. But Malaysia's legitimate CD producers feel the squeeze too. The government has encouraged legitimate digital production (which has expanded from one optical-disc plant in 1996 to around 50 today) as part of the country's effort to move up the technology ladder. Malaysian factories churn out an estimated 315 million CDs a year, worth $300 million. But producers who respect intellectual property rights complain that they can't compete with those...