Word: laddered
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...next hurricane to hit New Orleans. Visit them in their sunny yellow bungalow, which took on 3 ft. of water after Hurricane Katrina. The house now sits high and dry on concrete columns that soar 11 ft. into the air. The first time Alicia walked up a ladder into her living room, she stomped on the floor to make sure the whole thing wouldn't collapse like a wobbly flamingo. Now, she says, nothing but the "perfect storm"--a Category 4 or 5--will budge her. "I'm not planning on leaving," she says, peering down from her home...
...department store--stock boy. Then I got a job at Kroger's. And that's my whole life. Pretty simple life." It was a lot more complicated than that. But in one sense Hoffa's career indeed followed a simple line: straight up the ladder of labor-union power ... Hoffa's rise to power and the uses he has made of it are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record, sprawling over 44,000 pages of testimony ... But for all its awesome bulk, the record has some significant gaps: committee investigators found that many Teamster documents, including all records...
Well, the American family is under threat today. The very women who were told they could climb the corporate ladder, and indeed encouraged to do so, must now partake in a Sophie’s choice between equally desirable public and private ends. This is not ideal. Women should, so to speak, be able to bake their cake...
...staff because they've overspent; many doctors and nurses say the NHS is badly run. Meanwhile, Blair is pushing to let state schools have greater autonomy, which traditional Labour MPs think will lead to sharply unequal quality and hurt those at the bottom of the social ladder...
...core of CTC is Floortime, one-on-one, child-directed play periods. In one such session, David, 6, goes down a slide again and again. Each time he reaches the top of the ladder, a teacher playfully blocks his way, leading this very passive child to make eye contact and make his wishes known. "She wants him to move her hand or say 'Move' and be intentional," explains Lauren Blaszak, CTC's assistant director. "She's got an agenda; he doesn't know it. He keeps going back for more because it's fun." Building social interactions this...