Word: rung
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...young being hit so hard? Think of the job market as a big stepladder with layoffs forcing many workers to slip down a rung, leaving few vacancies at the bottom for new job seekers. Boomers are refusing to budge (i.e., retire) at a time when their kids--also members of an unusually large generation--are clamoring to climb aboard. At Parsons Brinckerhoff, a major engineering firm based in New York City, the turnover rate has been cut in half since last year, to less than 7%. "We're seeing the pig in the python here," says Parsons executive vice president...
Reasonable women will gladly sacrifice a rung or two on the ladder of success if having a family is truly a priority. It's really not any more complicated than that. Women have always paid a higher price when it comes to having children, and they always will. NANCY MIXELL Oxford, Ohio...
...daily operations, much less its legal liabilities, the immediate challenge isn't testing the Volcker paradigm - it's hanging around long enough to even have a chance to try. For all the relief the governor's voice must have given Arthur Andersen Thursday, the phone could still have rung too late...
...exercises into a fast-paced, high-stakes spectacle suitable for prime-time television. In the process, Ilyumzhinov is either rescuing chess or dragging it down to the level of Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones, depending on your point of view. In the highly political, deeply petty world of top-rung chess, nothing is black and white...
With the Crimson applying increased pressure in the offensive end, Moore fired a shot that rung a pipe before bouncing into the crease behind Lombard...