Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nolan Derouen flicks the taut string and imprints a fuzzy red stripe across the board. They slice the wood to size, carry it into Betty Hines' living room and nail it to the ceiling. Hines works at the back of the room, straining from the rungs of a ladder as she attaches tiles to the plywood with the aid of one of Derouen's assistants. Heavy rains, excessive groundwater and years of neglect in southern Louisiana's sugarcane region have led to creeping decay in Hines' home. Now, instead of harsh sunshine peeking through rotting walls, daylight filters through brand...
...important goal [of federal policy] is to provide an economic ladder up," he said. "That ladder must reach down to the very bottom of the pile so that everyone has a chance to grab that bottom rung...
...attempt to make do with those they have. This substitution translates into an apparent increase in productivity, but leaves less skilled non-union workers out in the cold. Thus, unions also can have the effect of freezing out those on the bottom rung of an industry's job ladder...
...duties at Hill & Knowlton, whose list of blue-chip clients ranges from Pepsi to Procter & Gamble. Last week he suddenly resigned as chief executive, still denying reports that he had been shoved out. For Dilenschneider, it was a . heartbreaking fall, 24 years after he began to climb the company ladder. The man seemed to have a tragic flaw: the more powerful he became, the more he believed in his own greatness...
Delgado was gazing at a large area where the crops had been mysteriously flattened in a remarkable pattern. A large, nearly perfect circle of plants had been bent down in a clockwise direction. Extending from the circle were other shapes: antennae, a ladder-like strip and a semicircle...