Word: ladders
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...selection will affect the direction the program will take in the future.AN ADMINISTRATIVE FOCUSA graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, Jehn first came to Harvard in 1997 as an Expos preceptor. Jehn has since climbed the Writing Program’s administrative ladder: serving as the head preceptor of Expos, the director of the Extension School’s Writing Center, and then the assistant director of the Harvard Writing Project.Yet despite his extensive teaching experience, Jehn differs from the program’s two most recent directors—Sommers and Richard Marius, both...
...much for the theory that maternity leave and childrearing are responsible for slowing women's climb up the employment ladder. Despite increasing efforts to mint more female professors in recent years, a new report from the Modern Language Association of America shows that women take longer than men to get promoted from associate professor to full professor - regardless of whether they are married or have children...
...Some professors who are considering retirement are concerned that in the current economic climate, there is no guarantee that a ladder faculty member would replace them...
...further to try and accelerate" the process. Says Steven Ibison, FBI special agent in charge in Tampa, "We're using resources that normally would be addressing other threats in order to surge this." Part of the strategy is to proceed in three "waves" that move "as high up the ladder" as possible, says Ibison: to collar not just the buyers who lied on loan applications, or brokers who ushered those shams along, but also the banks and lenders who looked the other way or actively participated in the scams (and often made a killing unloading toxic mortgages on Wall Street...
...Soviets in the battle for Afghanistan, but first rose to prominence as a supporter of Abdullah Mehsud, a one-legged militant imprisoned soon after the 9/11 terror attacks at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Baitullah Mehsud quickly leapfrogged his boss, and his ascension up the jihadi ladder was made apparent in 2005, when - swathed in a black cloth to shield his face - he negotiated the public signing of a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government. He has also served as the protege of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar...