Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lookout is the entry-level position for nine- and ten-year-olds. They can make $100 a day warning dealers when police are in the area. Sometimes the pint-size apprentice is rewarded with the most fashionable sneakers, bomber jacket or bicycle. The next step up the ladder is runner, a job that can pay more than $300 a day. This is the youngster who transports the drugs to the dealers on the street from the makeshift factories where cocaine powder is cooked into rock-hard crack. Finally, an enterprising young man graduates to the status of dealer, king...
DeLone had a 2-1 singles record during the fall, but the freshman has gradually moved up the ladder. Farrell had a big win over Yale's number-two player, Molly Quest, at the Eastern Indoor Championships...
...That's the spirit in which I took it, and the spirit in which I wish anybody else would take it." Others, though, see subtler motivations. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley cautions that some women may feel less feminine the higher up the ladder they go and thus have a greater need to advertise their attractiveness. "It's almost an unconscious way of balancing their act," she says...
Many have progressed up the academic ladder andare now being considered for tenured posts. Inmany areas of the humanities at Harvard, facultysay that newly hired women professors have playeddecisive roles in changing the traditionalacademic agenda...
...Total Women Total WomenTenured Professors 352 13 (3.7percent) 383 27 (7.0 percent)Assistant and Associate Professors (positionson the ladder to tenure 221 46 (20.8percent) 223 57 (25.6 percent)Other Teaching Posts (positions that do notlead to tenure) 76 35 (46.1percent) 245 91 (37.1 percent...