At the top of the ladder, a billion dollars isn't enough to get on the coveted Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans.
It is not difficult to notice the paucity of women in science, especially at the top of the career ladder, and the lack of recognition for the work that women scientists do.
But even in Malaysia, it is not just at the top of the ladder that rungs are missing 15% of schools lack a stable electricity supply, let alone access to the Internet.
Just this morning, my colleague Jenna Goudreau looked at how first names might be an indicator of success based on trends in the names of professionals at the top of the corporate ladder.
With a brand-new quad-core processor (i7-3632QM) developed by Intel, a high-end Nvidia GeForce GXT 660M and 8GB of RAM, the new Blade isn't quite at the top of the performance ladder, but is definitely within shouting distance.
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All coffee producers and sellers will be affected by the price increase, but when you are at the top of the price ladder and have painfully slow growth that is already a result of those lower McDonald's prices, that pain may be more immediate and severe.
The International Herald Tribune led with a story today about the wide gender gap at top of the ladder in Europe.
And because women are still a rarity at the top of the corporate ladder, they often get a lot more attention than their male counterparts on the way up--and on the way down.
As part of the negotiations over the fiscal cliff, Congress and President Obama are battling over whether to raise marginal tax rates at the very top of the income ladder.
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The unions complain that pay restraint is being applied at the bottom of the pay ladder and not at the top.
While a little compassion might help us climb the social ladder, once we're at the top we end up morphing into a very different kind of beast.
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