Word: laddered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after its anticlimactic loss to the Bulldogs, the Crimson seemed primed for a lackluster day. On top of that, Harvard was facing a scrappy Princeton squad that had narrowly lost to Trinity, 5-4, in the semifinals.But the Crimson’s strength at the top of the ladder was enough to end the weekend with a team victory. Wins at the top four flights—three of them in straight sets—proved to be the advantage against the Tigers. “I was a little worried after all the hype [Saturday],” Fast...
...Year, Bono, is successful in the fight against global poverty. It is tragic that such examples were not used in this article to better define ambition. Instead, Britney Spears and Sean (Diddy) Combs are used as examples of people whose ambitions led them to succeed. If the ladder to the top includes their like, then I would rather get stuck on the rung of indifference. Joshua Lange Nagano, Japan...
...with numbers." Increasingly, science majors love those companies back. Gao says, "There are no guarantees if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work your way up the ladder." If you go into finance or consulting instead, "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted, plus you're making a lot more money, while they're stuck...
...regulators - and internal compliance police - are looking further down the ladder. In a few cases, anyway, they are having the desired effect. ?Two years ago, we sent a client a small package of nuts at Christmas and he sent it back,? says Michael Connor, executive editor of Business Ethics. The magazine no longer puts clients in the position of having to decide what?s acceptable; instead, it makes a charitable donation and sends them a card saying...
...fastest clip in three decades and chief executives are cutting themselves huge paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Maryland, who was so incensed about his pension and health-care benefits being cut that he helped start a protest group called BellTel Retirees. It now has more than 100,000 members and mainly communicates online...