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And, in the last 15 years or so, the ladder has gotten higher – and more crowded – than ever.
AI is enabling new products and models that are helping the poorest move up the economic ladder through solutions that leapfrog existing technologies.
What Princeton University economist Alan Krueger has called the “Great Gatsby curve” illustrates the connection between concentration of income in one generation and the ability of those in the next generation to move up the economic ladder.
Furthermore, there was significant redistribution along the income ladder.
'The sculptor's shadows so little resembled shadows that they even clung to a ladder,' said Levin.
"Look out, there!" cried three landers, who were dragging an immense ladder.
"Attention there, for God's sake!" cried again the landers, pushing the ladder to the other side in order to climb to the left-hand pulley.
He must have needed a ladder.
He was climbing a ladder, he was entering this execrated middle class, with a satisfaction to his intelligence and comfort which he did not confess to himself.
Above, a large brier stopped the entry of the passage, and, as the first ladder had lost some rungs, it was necessary, in order to reach it, to hang on to a root of the mountain ash, and then to take one's chance and drop into the blackness.
He had already reached the twentieth ladder, and the descent still continued.
They threw themselves toward the shaft, they crushed through the narrow door to the ladder passage; while an old groom who had prudently led back the horses to the stable, looked at them with an air of contemptuous indifference, accustomed to spend nights in the pit and certain that he could eventually be drawn out of it.
And it even interested her and took her out of her grief, this unforeseen ascent, this long serpent of men flowing on and hoisting themselves up three on a ladder, so that even when the head should emerge in daylight the tail would still be trailing over the sump.
At the thirty-second ladder, as they passed a third landing-stage, Catherine felt her legs and arms grow stiff.
They had been climbing for half an hour, but so heavily that he had only reached the fifty-ninth ladder; there were still forty-three.
He was not always listened to; and was again about to be carried away by the crowd, when hoots arose outside at a little low door where the ladder passage emerged.
Afterwards, at every ladder, he had to perform the same manoeuvre over again, going down first, then receiving the body in his arms; and he had thus, down thirty ladders, two hundred and ten metres, to feel it constantly falling over him.
But instead of going out through the shed he passed through the narrow corridor which led to the ladder passage.
Without haste he took breath, and then went back into the ladder passage, stopping up the hole by replacing the panel which he had sawn.
Some who had thought of trying the ladder passage came down again shouting that it was already stopped up.
In Conseil I had a seasoned specialist in biological classification, an enthusiast who could run with acrobatic agility up and down the whole ladder of branches, groups, classes, subclasses, orders, families, genera, subgenera, species, and varieties.
I felt my naked feet clinging to the steps of an iron ladder.
At the foot of the ladder, a door opened and instantly closed behind us with a loud clang.
An iron ladder, clamped to the wall, led to the shaft's upper end.
I asked the captain what this ladder was for.
This ladder leads to a manhole cut into the Nautilus's hull and corresponding to a comparable hole cut into the side of the skiff.
This said, Captain Nemo headed to the hatch and disappeared down the ladder.
The abbe Chas was in ecstasies as he watched him spring from one ladder to another.
Julien took possession of the bunches of plumes, and ran up the ladder.
As he stepped down from the ladder, the abbe Chas-Bernard took him in his arms.
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