Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly so hairy, though, as a later scene in which he clutches a ladder dangling from a helicopter as it crashes into a cliff. Or a sequence in which Stallone and a hood roll down a sharp incline together. "We were going 200, 300 yds. straight down -- sheer face," Sly recalls. "You don't know if there's a branch or a hidden jagged rock under the snow. That really worried...
...dearth of women senior faculty in many of Harvard's departments is nothing new in the experiences of those women who've managed to climb the ladder to tenure at the University. Extreme and unbalanced ratios are common complaints which pepper professors' descriptions of their careers both at Harvard and elsewhere...
...tenured professors in the natural sciences, for example, only seven are women, according to the 1993 Affirmative Action report. Of 64 ladder, non-tenured faculty, 10 are women...
Among non-tenured, or "ladder" faculty, the University had the 11th largest percentage of female professors and the 14th largest percentage of minority faculty members...
...them, but that is exactly what the bulk of the population holed up inside bureaucratic organizations doesn't have, and why they are scared to death." Already the temping phenomenon is producing two vastly different classes of untethered workers: the mercenary work force at the top of the skills ladder, who thrive; and the rest, many of whom, unable to attract fat contract fees, must struggle to survive...