Word: ladders
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...living in the same city as them, making promises to hang out with each other on weekends. Others mask their anxiety by insisting that their 80-hour-a-week jobs suit them just fine. A social life, they say, isn't too important when you're climbing the corporate ladder and getting such significant professional stimulation. Still others welcome employment in companies that take responsibility for their employees' social lives, scheduling their free time with barbecues, softball games and cocktail hours...
...club membership has now grown to include over 60 dedicated members," Petrovic said. "Furthermore, the club also has a 20-person competitive ladder who compete intra- and intercollegiately...
...suddenly flush clerks and secretaries, not to mention the even flusher bankers, at Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs Group won't be convinced. But their company's smashing $3.7 billion initial public stock offering last week--spreading wealth up and down the ladder--was less noteworthy than a handful of Internet IPOs that flopped. Say what? Yes, flopped. Shares of online map company Mapquest and online advertising company Flycast failed to double in a day--a stiff bogey but one that Internet companies have been hitting all year. Meanwhile, online real estate company Comps.com actually fell...
Soon the HLS squash team had attracted more than 30 students. The students organized a ladder system for ranking themselves, and then the top five or six players to compete against other teams...
...Gibson says they have not attempted any two-floor parties yet for fear of people falling off the ladder. But the set-up does allow them to socialize with their fourth floor friends...