Word: laddering
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...allegiance of a new mutant named Wolverine, who must make a choice. Does he choose Xavier's idealistic dream of a peaceful co-existence between humanity and mutantkind, or does he opt for Magneto's vision of a world in which mutants replace humans on top of the evolutionary ladder? Translating a comic book onto the silver screen is no easy task-just ask Joel Schumacher of Batman infamy. But die-hard X-fans rejoiced when Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) signed on to direct the adaptation of the most popular comic book of all time. Singer's reputation...
...wish our kids were as free and easy as the Governor. There he is swaggering on TV and enjoying a late adolescence, and the kids I meet seem cautious, fearful of making the wrong choice and of losing their place on the ladder and getting stuck among the slackers. Thanks to his loony attitude toward higher education ("If you're smart enough to go to college, you're smart enough to pay for it yourself"), tuition at our state colleges will stay sky-high, meaning kids who graduate leave with a debt load as big as a barn. This...
...help boost women farther up the executive ladder, Lufthansa has joined with seven other major corporations to offer a so-called cross-mentoring system in which high-ranking managers in one company offer advice to women managers in another firm. It's an effort to help them develop the kind of old-boy network that allows male managers to successfully climb the corporate ladder...
...personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that "President of the United States" was about halfway up the ladder. I don't remember how I used to read books or look or even read a newspaper. The very way I think has been changed by the last four years. That's not to say that it wouldn't have changed at Stanford, but to wish I'd attended Stanford instead is to wish away...
When he got home from the Olympics, Hobbs settled into a successful career in the business world. In March he stepped down as chair of the Wall Street investment firm Warburg Dillon Read, after spending his entire career at the firm, working his way up the executive ladder. Most of his career was spent in England...