Word: laddering
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...single track leading from the military to Harvard graduate school, veterans with a master’s degree or MBA in hand pursue an array of opportunities along with their peers. Some will return to the armed forces, while some will climb the ranks of the corporate ladder. Monterisi will work as a real estate developer in New York City, Gildroy has a job lined up at Goldman Sachs, and Stokes has a spot at Boston Consulting Group...
...seismic shift. Bear in mind that half a century ago, as men moved from villages to cities-or overseas-to find work, they had very little contact with their sons. Those sons, with educations paid for by their fathers' remittances, were able to advance up the socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs at the heart of the Asian economic boom-robbed them of a family life, too. Today, their sons-the third generation and the present crop of fathers-are the product of two previous generations of absent dads. "The pattern of fatherlessness...
...number of faculty members with ladder positions has grown from 615 to 723 over the last decade—a larger increase than the last four decades combined, according to Knowles’s letter...
Like everything else in life, you earn your way up the ladder. You promise the best environment for the art. You give works to museums. And you mix a great drink...
Oxford is a fascinating cosmopolitan intellectual location to search for answers. Speaking personally, I made friends from many continents, and the Rhodes experience profoundly shaped my life. There is always time to climb the ladder of professional success, but a chance to explore the important questions of life in a foreign setting is a rare opportunity. This controversy should not discourage Harvard students from applying...