Word: laddered
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...automatic bid waits only at the top of the Ivy ladder, where the Crimson hasn’t stood since...
...mile drive from her home in Shreveport, La., to New Orleans to indulge her passion for 18th century English furniture and accessories. She has made 20 purchases in the city's shops, including tables, mirrors, silver serving pieces and jewelry. Her favorite: a 100-year-old collapsible library ladder with leather rungs for $2,000. "I've acquired antiques from all over the world, in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris and New York City," says Goodman. "But I think New Orleans is one of the best places to shop--for everything from fine items that cost a bundle...
...tennis world that's something akin to being called a glider with a jet engine. The comparison might have more to do with the scarcity of Asians among the top tier of professional men's tennis than anything else, but Srichaphan is rapidly ascending higher rungs of the ladder. The 23-year-old Thai shocked the tennis world at Wimbledon when he unseated former champion Andre Agassi, then continued a sizzling streak by winning his first atp (Association of TennisProfessionals) title in August and defeating world number-four ranked Marat Safin last month. 'I surprised everyone?that the player...
...organization’s large size and sprawling network of committees has daunted newcomers and earned it notoriety as a “leadership ladder,” Warren says...
Sugar longs to climb the well-defended ramparts of English society, and her ladder up arrives in the form of William Rackham, the dreamy, indolent heir to a perfume empire. She turns his head with her literary prattle--she's like Lolita and Humbert Humbert in one body--and he installs her in a fancy apartment. Sugar's rise is rapid, but as a great man once said, mo' money, mo' problems. On her way up she has to deal with Rackham's dysfunctional family, including his half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while...