Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom of the Crimson lineup could be key. Freshman Joe Dowling has been improving all season, and is now at the top of his game. He has worked his way up the Harvard team ladder and played for the first team in Cleveland, defeating his Mexican opponent in nationals...
...climbed step-by-step up the Harvard ladder from graduate student to teaching follow to 20th tenured woman professor. She says that although she has not felt discrimination as a woman, "I do feel the same sort of frustration that any woman feels when they are working in largely male contexts...
...government (No one has ever catalogued more than a few hundred). Another very large room will reveal 15,000 General Motors employees, whom G.M. 'itself never knew existed, slaving away on federal paperwork.' Posted across one wall will be the complete set of 44 OSHA regulations for climbing a ladder which Reagan alluded to in a 1978 speech. Up until now, the agency has only published and enforced...
...hottest spots was Checkpoint 7, two rooftop observation posts outside the Marines' eastern flank, which were manned by a total of 19 Marines. So intense was the fire that five members of one squad left their bunkers voluntarily, scampered up two flights of stairs and a metal ladder, to join their firepower to that of five comrades who were already in the rooftop fighting position. That act of gallantry cost them dearly. Three rocket-propelled grenades burst on the sandbags around the position without causing significant damage. But at about 10 p.m., a single 120-mm mortar round crashed through...
...Rifaat is the main guarantor of the regime's strength, he is also a major source of its frailty. He allegedly sits atop a nationwide ladder of corruption, an arrangement by which government officials on the take share payoffs with their immediate superiors. The bucks stop with Rifaat. Such shady enterprises as extorting money from drug traffickers in the Bekaa Valley and running guns throughout the Arab world have reportedly given him a personal fortune of around $100 million...