Every year new entrepreneurs, creative visionaries and world leaders emerge, and while they haven't yet climbed to the ranks of the world's most powerful women, they've certainly arrived on the scene.
His best achievements are the novel Tysyacha dush (1858; "A Thousand Souls"), a memorable portrait of a "new man," Kalinovich, who marries, in spite of his love for another girl, the crippled heiress of "a thousand souls" (serfs) and climbs to the rank of provincial governor, a post he fills with impeccable integrity.
Family life may be another factor that prevents women from climbing to the rank of the presidency, according to a study conducted at the University of California at Berkley.
She started dancing late, at 13. Within a decade, she had climbed to the top ranks of Russia's Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet.
The Royal Bank, which climbed to the top ranks of British banking through a painful but transforming merger with NatWest in March 2000, has been growing since then mainly by making smaller, focused acquisitions.
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles), who in two decades has climbed to the upper ranks of the party's House leadership, said Wednesday that he still had "a lot of work and a lot of listening to do" before he decided whether to run for Senate.
That's the increasingly relevant question as Woodley has made the media rounds this past month, talking up her new indie romance "The Spectacular Now" and next year's "Divergent". Certainly, there are a handful of obvious parallels: Each actress quickly climbed to the top of the Young Hollywood ranks with a hot award-season title (Lawrence with "Winter's Bone" and Woodley with "The Descendants").
Once again he recounted his personal story: rising from a youth that included years of homelessness to climb to the highest ranks of state government, serving as the leader of the Senate before he was indicted.
I fear that deep answers to these questions would climb to the highest ranks of UC administration, which has a vested interest in maintaining itself.
Two years after his net-post accident in Italy, Blake had climbed to the world's No. 4 ranking, the highest of his career.
