Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year. From 1970 on, the annual rate slowed to .3%. The job situation, according to most estimates, is not likely to improve, either now or later. Concludes Demographer Richard Easterlin, an economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania: "These graduates will have a relatively slow movement up the job ladder...
...conclusion: married men do best, and married women worst, because in traditional marriage the wife lives to support her husband's career and takes her own less seriously. Says the sociologist: "The family provides a kind of support system for the husband, pushing him up the job-advancement ladder. That doesn't happen for a single man or woman, and certainly not for a married woman, who is charged with performing domestic tasks...
...grounds, and appears as a spokesman for American Express. Into this halycon world enters Clubber Lang (Mr. T), an enormous fighter who sports a mohawk. While Balboa runs around in designer suits, Lang really runs, getting in increasingly better shape as he climbs the boxing world's challenge ladder. Rocky agrees to fight Lang, taking on his former rival Apollo Creed as coach...
Approaching the island after dawn, the intrepid hams quickly discovered that the Coast Guard's warning had been apt. The wire ladder was there, all right, but the backwash was violent. Transporting gear, including 50 boxes of electronic equipment, three rotatable-beam antennas, two gasoline-powered generators weighing about 150 Ibs. each, plus assorted 20-ft.-long steel pipes, bamboo poles, 250-lb. gasoline drums, kegs of drinking water and a week's food supply, looked impossible. Just getting to the swaying ladder seemed daunting enough...
...trip's cost (more than $10,000) was split among the nine operators. Ackley set off with two crewmen in a 12-ft. dinghy, powered by a 25-h.p. outboard motor. One crewman skillfully maneuvered the tiny craft through the heavy seas to put Ackley at the ladder on the crest of a wave. He scrambled up the 16 suspended steps-and the ladder held...