Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line New England firm that had initially built and continued to own the dam, with a proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy-equipment company (1980 sales: $613 million). Financing for the $28 million...
...with reason. Reuben Mattus, who is 68 and white-whiskered now, helped his widowed mother Leah sell her lemon ices in the South Bronx when he was a small boy, and he has continued to follow the ice-cream business. Competition from big manufacturers forced him up the quality ladder. He raised his butterfat content to 12%, from the customary U.S.-regulated minimum of 10% for vanilla, and was successful for a while. The opposition caught on and, he says, began to undercut him with illegal discounts and credit deals. So he decided to go where the chains could...
...away. Good idea -but it reckons without simple psychological fact. In civilian life these chaps were professional athletes, for whom the only wins and losses that counted were on the playing fields. So halfway to freedom somebody says, "Wait a minute, we can beat these guys." Back up the ladder and into the stadium they go, in search of at least a moral victory and, as none of them would express it, an assertion of civilian values-their camp leaders are against cooperating in a propagandizable sporting event, all for the escape-over military necessity...
...curriculum, but at last month's Faculty meeting, Rosovsky was more optimistic: "Not any one area looks disastrous." WOMEN FACULTY AT HARVARD 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 Total Women Total Women Total Women No. % No. % No. % Tenure 352 13 37 352 11 31 356 12 34 Ladder 221 46 208 280 47 204 222 44 198 Other 76 35 461 88 34 386 91 34 374 Total...
According to the report, 18 departments are still underutilizing women in tenured positions and nine in non-tenured positions. Two departments have too few minority professors and five have too few minorities in ladder positions. Moreover, the same dearth of women and minorities exists--though to a slightly lesser degree--at administrative, professional and support staff levels throughout the University...