As Mr Ruane takes his leave, another Welsh Labour MP has begun his climb up the greasy pole.
Despite these varied routes to the top, the greater triumph for America remains that most groups have found their way up the greasy pole.
Next up for the Pole is Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens, who saw off Croatia's Ajla Tomljanovic 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 to continue her best start to a season -- as she reached her fourth quarterfinal of the year.
On his way up the political pole he clashed with Margaret Thatcher over (among many things) industrial policy and opposition to Europe, upset the generals over defence cuts, and appalled the Left with a strident campaign against the CND anti-nuclear group.
"When we went up near the North Pole, there was very little knowledge, " says Jeremy.
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However, once I was in college, I was surprised to hear how people reacted to being rejected by a college and that their choices for safety or last-resort schools were ones I considered fairly high up on the totem pole.
And when the Cold War started, the Soviets said they were going to set up a base at the South Pole, so the U.S. rushed there first.
Well, you took piano lessons, finished college, kept your nose clean, worked your way up, climbed the greasy pole, made partner at the firm, and now you're worn out.
Scientists may not be able to explain the "boiler" at the south pole but they are already talking up the possibility that conditions there could allow for liquid water below the surface - with all the implications that might have.
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Gray crisply tracks the lives of the six undergrads up and down (mostly down) the greased pole of literary life.
He has various options, including the second seat at Renault, but that would mean pairing up with Robert Kubica again, and the Pole would have one more year's knowledge of the team and car.
Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans.
The next time you are on a subway or bus and are standing up holding onto a pole or railing lamenting the fact another person just got your seat, you may want to consider that standing up may actually be healthier for you, and could potentially increase your lifespan.
Danica Patrick, the head turner who turned even more heads by winning the pole race this week, will be lining up at the head of the pack.
Last year one out of four races was won by the driver starting the race in the pole position, up from one out of 10 earlier this decade.
At one point, he tried to call the Poxley volunteer fire department, but the creosote pole that supported the telephone wire had already gone up like a torch, taking his service away.
When Buddy the Elf travels from the North Pole in search of his father, he ends up in the Big Apple.
And if things do not work out and Chrysler slides into bankruptcy, Fiat has no liability exposure but would be in pole position to pick up the assets it needs to implement its North American strategy at fire-sale prices.
"If you imagine somebody up, say, a telegraph pole at the very top, needing to rewire something, they don't really want to be fiddling with a laptop, " explains Paul Reed, Motorola's mobile computing product manager.
The same pole was soon cartwheeling out of the ground again as McCullum, promoted up to number three despite his back concerns, also tried to turn one to leg.
The South Pole Telescope could thus see 10 billion years into the past, and might turn up thousands of clusters more than enough to study the evolution of dark energy.
To safely simulate a pull-up, the Thera-Band is first wrapped around a pole or bed post.
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Lorenzo's finish was impressive after he crashed on the warm-up and had a poor start from pole position.
Growing up in Brooklyn, he dreamed of being Shackleton at the South Pole or Darwin on board the Beagle.
But just as I made my way around the pole nearest to her seat, she looked up at me, jumped up like Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and ran off the car.
To loosen up before starts, Bauer drifts back toward the right-field foul pole, where after taking a crow-hop, he sends the ball sailing across the grass to a teammate standing within a few feet of the left-field foul pole.
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An Egyptian astronomer would have held up a plumb line and waited for the night sky to slowly pivot around the unmarked pole as the Earth rotated.
Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).
After an opening bonus-point win at Edinburgh, this victory puts the Irish province in pole position in Pool Two, with home and away fixtures against Castres next up in December.
The best you'll be able to do is hang on to a light pole, and while you're hanging on, the fire ants from all the mounds -- of which there is two per yard on average -- will clamber up that same pole.
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