Word: laddered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scandals are only more spectacular higher up the ladder of public life. In India's central government, Judeo is the latest in a long line of ministers of every political hue to stand accused. The allegations against him pale in comparison with the disclosures of 2001, when journalists from Tehelka.com, an Internet news service, posed as arms dealers and recorded themselves paying bribes to the then BJP president, Bangaru Laxman, and Jaya Jaitley, friend of Defense Minister George Fernandes. Fernandes resigned but returned to office months later...
...history and the numbers are any indication, there’s even more reason to believe that this could be the year that the surging Crimson break Princeton’s streak. In every year of Harvard’s steady climb up the Ivy ladder, the Crimson has directly leapfrogged the team that ranked ahead of them the year before...
...publicist. "He's kayaking out to meet you with his personal trainer!" I was surprised, or rather, confused. Was I supposed to be impressed that he could kayak? Or swept away by the strange, albeit larger-than-life gesture? I was still stumped when Crowe scaled the ship's ladder, grumbled something to the photographer who had been taking pictures of his approach and disappeared into the hold. "He told me to f___ off," said the photographer nervously. "I was breaking his concentration...
...Greider, individual companies can cure the syndrome only by “recognizing the value of having workers involved intimately in the decision-making process…[making them] feel like they are participants with voice and with the ability to go up to people above them on the ladder and tell them, ‘You’ve got this wrong. What you’re doing is going to hurt, not help, the country...
...panelists also discussed the challenges facing women who are climbing the corporate ladder, noting the “Old Boys’ Club” that exists at many law firms and businesses...