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...software engineers at a subsidiary of ANZ Grindlays Bank. They work long hours for a combined income of nearly $17,000 a year, though annual raises can reach 50%. "This industry is so cushy, so comfortable," Mani says. "My peers in manufacturing have to claw their way up the ladder." The couple bank 25% of their earnings...
...Mani and Ramdas, both 24, are on the low end of the ladder. Young programmers may earn $700 a month, and companies like software giant Infosys Technologies are introducing workers to America's stock-option business culture. As a result, more than 200 Infosys workers have become U.S.-dollar millionaires. "The IT industry has created more millionaires in the past five years than all of India's industries put together in the past 50 years," says Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, another big software house with headquarters in Bangalore...
...Track One:Tuesday, one day after a federal district judge in Miami rejected the same request, the Bush campaign brought a case before the federal appeals court in Atlanta - the next step up the ladder - asking the judges to block further hand recounts on the grounds that such counts are unconstitutional. The Gore legal team has responded to the Bush team's statements in writing. And on Thursday night, each camp was busy reading through the other's assertions in order to write up rebuttals (or "supporting documents") due by 7 a.m. Friday...
Since the younger Gore's hard-fought 1976 Congressional campaign and his meteoric rise up the House and Senate ladder, it seemed like the political ambitions of the elder Gore--the White House--would finally be culminated through the political legacy...
...than to assume the mantle of Washington's most prominent Democrat. But that scenario, of course, requires Al Gore to lose the presidential election. If Gore prevails in the Florida cliffhanger, the Democratic cause will be better served in Washington, but Clinton herself will be pushed back down the ladder of power...