Word: laddered
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...Analysts cite mutual interests that Iran and North Korea share as reason to suspect the two countries are collaborating. Intelligence sources say North Korea is working its way up the ladder of nuclear sophistication by acquiring the ability to make not just crude, clumsy A-bombs but also warheads small enough to fit atop its missile arsenal?and Pyongyang has already warned it would be willing to sell its expertise and nuclear material unless the U.S. delivers aid and security guarantees...
Classified as a “working fire” by CFD, four engine companies, three ladder companies, two rescue companies and two division commanders responded to the incident. Though firefighters remained on scene until 12:11 a.m., the fire was controlled quickly, Higgins said...
There are the wealthy and the poor and people on every step of the ladder in between, ambitious nose-to-the-grindstone academic types and older folks who gather on benches to watch...
...Nowadays M.R. has moved up the Murder Inc. corporate ladder. He subcontracts his work out to a stable of killers, dozens of younger men who prefer a handgun to M.R.'s more intimate way of death by close embrace. He drags on a cigarette, and explains that some of his boys will offer a prayer for their victim, while others try to erase the murders from their conscience with hashish or sex. "Nobody is a born killer," he says...
Freshman Moira Weigel emerged as a solid No. 3 this year, which was a pleasant surprise for the Crimson, while fellow rookies Tina Brown and Allison Fast filled out the rest of Harvard’s ladder in the final competitions of the year...