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...Triple-A baseball clubhouse, my co-workers warned me, is one of the most tense places in all of sports. That locker room is full of guys resentful about being sent down from the majors, guys jaded about being stuck one rung from the top, and guys cocky about making the jump from Single- or Double-A. Our ballpark in particular illustrated the stark difference between major league and minor league—it was 50 years old and desperately in need of remodeling, so old that the visiting team had to dress in a trailer out behind the left...
...likely to displace a less skilled worker.“In the short run, a living wage might benefit those at the bottom of the economic ladder,” he wrote. “In the long run, they would be replaced by those who are already a rung or two higher.” But Gould-Wartofsky says that there should still be no question about instituting a living wage.“It’s simply ethical—there should not be poverty at the richest university in the world,” he says...
...admiring husband. "She will not be worn like a brooch. We have a stormy relationship because she is her own woman." While in Arizona, worried that she sounded a little depressed on the transatlantic phone, Bono asked his in- laws to "keep an eye on her. They must have rung her right away, because I got this phone call saying, 'I don't need a baby-sitter!' and she slammed down the phone." Ali made an unscheduled appearance in Arizona 48 hours later and stayed five days...
...class of women executives are heading upward in U.S. companies, climbing the corporate ladder one rung at a time. They are moving higher on the basis of talent, not family ties. Perhaps the most highly placed of these bootstrap female executives is Verna Gibson, who in May was named president of Limited Stores (see box). With estimated 1985 sales of $800 million, Limited Stores is the largest women's fashion chain...
...outdoor Heptagonal Championships, the Crimson could not muster enough to dig itself out of the bottom rung of the Ivy League, as both teams finished eighth in the final conference meet of the year...