Word: laddered
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...Marjah," an object of emulation in the Shiite tradition, whose position is attained through decades of patient learning and Islamic jurisprudence. Sadr is a junior cleric, although his supporters have taken to referring to him as a Hujjat al-Islam, or jurisprudent, the next step up the ladder, although most observers doubt he has completed the requisite studies...
...Finding ways to help people around the world move up the economic ladder will undoubtedly be a central theme of my work as Dean,” Ellwood wrote...
...Monday mornings who activates the M.C.G. machine. The dusty books contain handwritten facts and figures about M.C.G. attendances going back to 1921; Walshe computerized this information during the '90s and continues to update it. By cross-referencing factors such as which teams are playing, their positions on the ladder, whether they're last-start winners and the weather forecast for match day, "We can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty (give or take a couple of thousand people) what the crowd will be for upcoming matches," Walshe says. But he offers more than just a number. He makes projections...
...example, it's not necessarily bad to hold the money in a 60-day CD while you shop around, says Rande Spiegelman, head of financial planning at Charles Schwab. For retirees investing large sums in cashlike investments, says Yeske, longer-term CDs are fine as part of a ladder, a strategy in which CDs of different maturities expire at different times...
...spent the bulk of his career climbing the ladder at his native land's dominant brewer, Adami, 49, has quickly learned to relish the role of feisty American underdog. Since he took the helm in February 2003, eight months after SAB bought Miller for $5.6 billion, Adami and his team of transplanted South Africans have defied the skeptics by starting a remarkable turnaround at Miller. Over the past decade and a half, the company had been neglected, treated as an afterthought by its parent, food and tobacco giant Philip Morris. But thanks to an irreverent ad blitz that has presented...