Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...About his run for the presidency, he says, "It just wasn't my time. Thank God, because it saved my life." He wakes up each morning to "my second chance in life," looking back at how far he has come instead of grasping for the next rung on the ladder, satisfied, grateful, to be a U.S. Senator. "I'm alive. I'm well. My family is happy. I do something I love." More than enough for anyone...
...many qualified Japanese seem reluctant to take jobs with international groups lest they slip a rung on the competitive career ladder at home. Though Japan buys about half the bonds issued by the World Bank, for example, few Japanese can be found in key positions there. The Japanese Finance Ministry, in fact, has been forced to set quotas of young staffers that Japanese banks must send to such international institutions...
...serious and the considered, even if his more famous works seem on the flippant side to some. Wolfe earned a B.A. cum laude from Washington and Lee University in his native Virginia and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. After Yale, he started climbing a traditional journalism ladder, moving rapidly from The Springfield Union to The Washington Post and then on to The New York Herald Tribune...
Jack and George are from New York. Jack was the co-captain of the 1987-88 men's squash team, while George reached number-seven on the ladder...
...woodcutting"), Kennedy entered Harvard to study English literature. But he switched to biology and stayed on for a Ph.D., meanwhile coaching the Harvard ski team. In contrast to today's microbiologists, Kennedy says, he took the old-fashioned "butterfly route" in biology. He nonetheless rocketed up the academic ladder at Syracuse and | then Stanford, where he became provost in 1979. En route he detoured to Washington, first as a science adviser to Gerald Ford, then as Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Jimmy Carter. In the latter role, he was a strong public-interest spokesman, opposing use of ozone-damaging...