Word: laddered
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...unique social and spatial grounding. In trying to engage with the electorate, he's got intimate. It means he's comfortable talking about himself - and he's not shy about trying to appeal to voters on emotional grounds or on the basis of shared values. Latham says his "ladder of opportunity" slogan "comes from who I am and where I've been." At Labor's national conference in January, he sketched his climb out of Green Valley: "When I was young, my mum used to tell me there were two types of people in our street - the slackers...
Heavily guarded Buckingham Palace had a surprise visit from BATMAN last week. Dressed as the Caped Crusader, protester Jason Hatch climbed unnoticed to a palace ledge with the help of a ladder and sidekick Robin, Dave Pyke. The men hoped to gain national attention for fathers' rights, but their stunt is more likely to inspire action on another front: beefing up palace security...
Whether or not the Crimson can climb any further up the ladder remains to be seen, as Harvard lost to No. 3-seeded St. Francis last weekend...
...will be especially hard pressed in making a case to the comfortable majority of urbanites that things are crook, that the government has to go, and that only Labor will look after them. Perhaps Latham's toughest job will be getting the most comfortable Australians to believe that his "ladder of opportunity" won't be erected at their expense. Although it's probably too late for people to get their heads around it, Latham's family and tax policy, released on Sept. 7, has many worthwhile features - and several that are hard to fathom. There...
...instincts for the nitty-gritty of daily political combat. But the truly amazing feature of the rise of Latham during an election year has been that the one-time policy wonk has opted for slogans rather than details, symbols instead of costed measures. We've heard about Latham's "ladder of opportunity," but what kind of tax reform will secure the rungs? Although this policy-lite approach seems not to have hurt Latham's showing in opinion polls, it won't be tolerated in the biggest poll...