Applicants often pad their experience out, but which ones and by how much?
It was a market where writers were treated badly, payment was poor, readership uncritical, and the work often arbitrarily truncated or padded out for reasons of space.
Family travel is often a launch pad for creating lifelong memories.
Also, air padded bras often need the padding replaced as the air leaks out.
The Warped Tour is often described as a launching pad for young bands; certainly Saturday's show included a few that seemed capable of graduating to bigger stages.
Robert Redford is a two-time Oscar winner and founder of the Sundance film festival, which often serves as a launch pad for future award-winners.
Sometimes these snapshots are illuminating, though often they come across as padding for a book whose focus is on Egypt, and Cairo in particular.
The president will name Cornelia T. L. Pillard, a law professor; Patricia Ann Millett, an appellate lawyer; and Robert L. Wilkins, a federal district judge, to fill out the appeals court, which is often described as the second most powerful court in the country because it decides major cases and often serves as a launching pad for future Supreme Court justices.
Though clearly not the kind of programming that everyone enjoys, soap operas have a core audience of fans addicted to their cliff-hanging story lines, and often serve as the launch pad for actors who later go on to do higher quality work.
That means retailers like the Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, Uniqlo and Urban Outfitters have often used London as a launch pad for foreign expansion.
