Word: laddered
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...presentation with a pitch for "the most upscale reality show you can imagine." On "The Apprentice" - debuting in early 2004 from "Survivor" Producer Mark Burnett - 16 people compete to get a chance to get a job working for Donald Trump. Sixteen people, backstabbing, and climbing the corporate ladder: it's "Survivor" without all the confusing nature metaphors...
It’s time to leave—all this ambition is beginning to grate on me. We bid Andy goodbye and wish him good luck in his plan to scale the Catholic career ladder. “Speaking of Catholic,” he tells us, “my host said there will be a party tonight where girls dress up like Catholic schoolgirls and party like you’ve never seen.” It is now officially time to leave. We bid goodbye to Pius ’07, along with our peppy prefrosh...
...after graduation. Last summer, while other Harvard students spent long hours hunched over desks in Goldman Sachs, I sold train tickets to German tourists. There was, I convinced myself, a winsome kind of virtue in my refusal (well, inability) to start climbing the rungs of the career ladder...
...they sought to set up the most rudimentary kind of authority, U.S. and British officials confronted the challenge of detoxifying a 24-year tyranny. How could they know the good guys from the bad, know how far down the Baath Party ladder to purge, know which tribal leaders were legitimate representatives of their people and which had been in Saddam's pocket? In a very real and horrifying way, the ransacking of government offices and power centers--all the resentment and retribution against the network of stoolies, spies and party apparatchiks--is part of the de-Baathification that both critics...
Think globally. Chasing down a decent yield doesn't necessarily mean running up the risk ladder if you consider investments outside the U.S. New Zealand's 10-year government bond, for instance, yields 6%-plus and looks at least as safe as an equivalent U.S. Treasury bond that kicks off about 4%. Why? U.S. interest rates are near 44-year lows, in part because of demand for Tbonds from investors looking for safety in the face of war. As that war demand unwinds, rates will rise again...