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...addition to helping single-parent families, public policy can help reduce the number of single-parent families. A two-tier system of divorce law would make marriages with minor children harder to dissolve. The welfare system could be changed to eliminate its marriage disincentives...
...plan, backed by a lopsided 27-1 straw vote at the most recent owners' meeting, would split each of the two 14-club leagues into three rather than the current two divisions. A second tier of play-offs would be created by also vaulting the second-place club with the best record (the wild-card team, terminology borrowed from pro football) into postseason play. "Fans are looking for an opportunity for their teams to be winners more often than they are now," contends John Harrington, president of the Red Sox. He piously insists that the owners "are not doing this...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...
...tier up are modems with speed rated 9600 baud, which, despite of a price tag of more than $100, are winning over many a computer user. Most of these modems are actually able to work faster than the rated spped of 9600 baud; equipped with the so- called V.42bis data- compression standard, they can compress and decompress data at a ratio of 4:1, which means up to 38,400 bits of data, or orughly three double- spaced pages of text, can be sent or received per second...
...pyramid are 324 millionaire professionals, whose big, fast, durable bodies do wonders. "Best athletes in the world," harrumphs Boston's legendary coach Red Auerbach. On the second tier, March Madness is the distillation of nearly 30,000 college men and women. And below them lie the foundation of the culture, nearly a million high school players of both sexes (from 16,500 schools) who even now are contesting one another for state titles. And still there are more players in church leagues, the Ys and public playgrounds...