Word: laddered
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...city that boasts the longest experience with a living wage is Baltimore, where members of BUILD, an association of local religious and community groups, found in 1992 that some 30% of soup-kitchen attendees tended to have jobs. But the jobs didn't pay enough to give them a ladder out of poverty. The federal minimum wage was in the middle of a decline in its buying power, from a 1968 peak of $1.60, which is equivalent to $8.17 in today's dollars, to its current level of $5.15. The community organizers teamed up with union muscle, and after...
...cynic he was, it was with acerbic joy--a shameless love for all the scoundrels who schemed to get rich, kill the cuckolded husband, exploit the misery of a man trapped in a cave, beat a murder rap, shin up the corporate ladder, bamboozle an insurance company or steal a nice guy's girl. For Wilder, mankind was divided not into the haves and have-nots but into the haves and let's-gets. He celebrated the ugly American: brash men on the make, women on the take. What knaves these mortals be! How smart they are, though...
...Sidney: "Hunsecker's the golden ladder to the places I wanna get... way up high, Sam, where it's always balmy." - from the movie...
Driving back with Lowrie from his crofts (small farms) after feeding the sheep and collecting the goose eggs, we stopped and looked in on Binnie, Lowrie's elderly distant cousin. I chatted with Binnie while Lowrie stood on a ladder and poked around in the attic, checking on the fish he was salting and drying. Shetlanders have a very cozy way of looking out for others: dropping in on a neighbor, tending someone's land and sharing resources. "At this time of year, when you have to take off sheep, you pass some of them to others who may need...
...9/11 finally focuses less on carnage than on people. There are the fire fighters of Engine 7, Ladder 1 (all of them, amazingly, survived), whom we meet as gruff wise guys and leave--through the Naudets' exclusive access to ground zero in the first days of the recovery operation--as war veterans. And there are the brothers, who shot tirelessly on Sept. 11, even though, until tearfully reunited that night, each believed the other was dead. "You have to do something," explains Gedeon. "You have to focus on your work, or you'll go crazy." In that way, on that...