Word: laddered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Klein put it best when he stated, "Bill Clinton was a good President. Hillary Clinton is a good Senator. But enough already." Am I the only one who feels that Hillary is overly ambitious? Does she want to ascend to the highest rung of the political ladder just for the sake of it? If she runs for President, she will further polarize Democrats and Republicans. Who needs a more divided country? Hillary is a good politician and a hard worker who delivers on her promises. I respect her, but I don't want her in the Oval Office. We need...
...insistent signals of menopause. Anthropologists say male status is typically tied to money and power, which explains why the standard male midlife crisis is triggered by a career crack-up. Women's turmoil often reflects events in their personal lives as well as the accumulated stress of years of ladder climbing, multitasking and barrier breaking. Nearly three-quarters of women from 40 to 54 in a Yankelovich Monitor study said life is "much too complicated...
...beat out the bigger names like Dick Cavett, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech, a whimsical look at aging, delivered partly in light verse. Given little...
...many staffers, the firings underscored their fear that the loyalties of Sauter, 50, and Joyce, 52, no longer belong to the news division but to Black Rock, the nickname for CBS Inc.'s Manhattan headquarters. According to their critics, the two men have their feet firmly on the corporate ladder and are eager to advance upward. Though both spent much of their careers as journalists (Sauter worked as a newspaperman for nine years, while Joyce began as a radio reporter), they made their reputations in management positions. Sauter served as the network's chief censor and head of the sports...
Playing with co-captain Jonathan Chu in the top doubles contest was Jordan Bohnen, a senior who has seen little time in recent months, and mainly towards the bottom of the ladder...