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...have developed a two-tier work force. The contingent workers get a different package of pay and benefits or no benefits...
...that is definitely the trend. The first step, in the mid-'80s, was to reduce some of the benefits packages for the lower-tier workers, and that continues. The next step was to fire middle-level management. The third step was to reduce benefits packages across the board for all employees. And now we're at the fourth step, which is to do much more business by contract, whether it is with contingent workers and part-time workers or by contracting...
...There is a two-tier system," Baer said. "There is the traditional news reporting. But now there is a sassy kind of reporting, bordering on commentary...
Baltimore is no one's idea of an artistic Mecca -- maybe the last top-tier cultural icon to emerge there was Babe Ruth -- but for 30 seasons it has fostered a nonprofit theater of increasingly venturesome repertoire. Housed in a converted college building amid the rundown brick facades of downtown, Center Stage has debuted Eric Overmyer's On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, a sprightly fantasy about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims...
...million federal acres. The current fee, $1.86 per month to graze one cow and her calf, is well below market value. But any raise is tempered by concern for small ranchers. An estimated 45% of ranchers using federal lands have fewer than 100 cattle. Babbitt's idea: a two-tier fee structure that charges the small rancher less and offers a credit to those who improve the land. In May he will hold hearings on the issue throughout the Rocky Mountain region...