Word: laddered
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Daly paced herself to run the Paris Marathon, but when it comes to climbing Microsoft's corporate ladder, the 36-year-old sprints. In a decade she advanced from account rep to head of the company's largest domestic sales region. During the three years Daly was general manager for the New York--New Jersey district, sales in the business-products line shot up 114%. This summer, Daly hopped to Paris to run the company's $500 million communications division, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
...cards and other sources, is designed to be updated monthly to reflect such life-changing events as the birth of a child or a job promotion. The next objective is to be able to identify an individual's "velocity component"--whether he is moving up or down the socioeconomic ladder and how fast. "This may be the holy grail of consumer information," says Charles Morgan, Axciom's CEO. "If you can figure out whether someone is on the up-and-up, then you can devote more money marketing to him than to someone going the other...
...stress in our office that students should be looking for good matches which deal with various qualities of a college. Ratings obscure that, [and instead] are a game of climbing ladder, where the motivation is to try to get into the highest rated college they can,” said John Anderson, director of college counseling at Phillips Academy Andover...
This fall is going to be a great time to sit down. Toilets and airline seats are both getting a kick up the luxury ladder, thanks to Japanese toiletmaker Toto and Virgin Atlantic Airways, among others. In September Toto will introduce the U.S. to Neorest, left, a combination bidet-toilet that may very well be smarter than you are first thing in the morning. It knows when you're ready to use it (the lid lifts as you approach) and when you're done (the lid closes, and the toilet flushes). It even knows what has gone on in between...
...Spectators at a performance of the Moscow State Circus in the English town of Folkestone were bemused by the unfamiliar sight of acrobats wearing sequinned leotards ... and hard hats. The circus' insurers said that because of new E.U. regulations governing workers employed at heights "greater than the average step ladder," the performers' cover would be withdrawn if they failed to don protective headwear...