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During its 575-episode run, Saturday Night Live has had four all-female rock groups as musical guests. SNL is a major rung on the ladder to mainstream success, and it's worth wondering why so few female bands get the chance to step up. Lilith Fair proved that plenty of ladies are eager to strap on a guitar, but very few seem to want to do it with their sisters--perhaps because they know that the (still) mostly male rock audience inevitably associates all-women bands with either gender politics or tickle fights...
...It’s already been rung!” Crisman-Cox protests. “I’m not just standing here...
...another sector, like health care. It improves the match between the workers' skills and the skills that are being demanded. The nation as a whole gets a spillover benefit if all firms engage in this kind of training. The other component of this would be subsidizing the first rung on the career ladder--through internships, apprenticeships--in professions where that first rung is now being done in some other country...
...following this period of hostility, some students began to accept and embrace the bells, and eventually formed the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers during the 1950s to ensure that they would be rung on an active basis, a tradition that is still practiced to this...
...Labor's education, health, tax and welfare policies - the rungs of the ladder, as Latham would say - where his influence has taken hold. Education is the cornerstone of Latham's world: cradle-to-grave learning, the reform of tertiary institutions and teacher training, more resources, school funding based on need. As in Latham's own life, government schools provide the foundation, especially in disadvantaged areas. Universal health care forms another rung in Latham's social-equalization scheme. Reward for effort is his aim in tax and family policy: a "learn or earn" ultimatum for young people, the removal of high...