Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the afternoon light fading, the first of three babies, all girls, was lowered in a wire rescue basket down a long ladder to ecstatic applause and cheers. Miners hugged one another. Some medical experts felt that the excess fat and surplus water in the tissues of the newborn had helped them to survive for such an extended period. They also assumed that the infants, having so recently emerged from the darkness of the womb, were less subject than older children or adults to the stress of being buried alive...
...monitor how it was being done. One senior vice president gave underlings envelopes containing play money equal to how much extra profit he thought they could be bringing in. But in attempting to trace the blame for the check-kiting scheme as high as possible on the corporate ladder, Bell discovered a "peculiar management structure" at Hutton with fuzzy personal responsibilities. No one, for example, was willing to admit being the immediate boss of Morley, the cash manager. Wrote Bell: "Morley is now an orphan, seemingly lost or at least in limbo along with his corporate function." Even...
Enders had an unusually slow ascent up Harvard's academic ladder. He was an associate professor of bacteriology and immunology for 12 years, until 1956, when he became a full professor. He did much of his work in laboratories at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Medical Center, where he was chief of the research division of infectious diseases...
...between graduating from business school and becoming the College's top administrator, Jewett has moved up the admissions ladder, getting promoted every time he tired of doing the job he was doing...
According to the Harvard police report, the 48-year-old fell from a ladder to a ledge eight ft, below, then fell an additional eight ft. to the floor. His head was reportedly bleeding, but he did not lose consciousness...