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...threaten the G.O.P. advantage in presidential years. "I don't think you'll see the Republican Party or the White House getting involved in all these state fights over it," says G.O.P. consultant Charles Black. "In a national election I would expect abortion to be one of the second-tier issues, not a top-tier burning...
Baker, chief of staff and later secretary of the treasury under Reagan, has little foreign policy experience and will probably rely on career bureacrats for guidance, Khong says. He adds that these experts at the "second tier" of the state department are moderate...
...senior officer at Drexel, Milken was the chief architect of the firm's rise from a lackluster, second-tier brokerage into a feared and envied powerhouse. By developing the use of junk bonds to stake such corporate raiders as Saul Steinberg and T. Boone Pickens, Milken presided over the radical reshaping of American industry in the past ten years. Along the way, dozens of Drexel executives became multimillionaires...
When Gorbachev, at last June's party conference, unveiled his plan to replace the existing parliament with a two-tier legislative system, he hailed it as a milestone on the way to "democratization." The Kremlin obviously underestimated just how democratic the response would be once the suggested legislation was presented for "public discussion" in October. More than 300,000 comments and suggestions flooded in; as a result, 58 out of 117 proposed clauses in the package of constitutional amendments and election laws were modified. Leading the legal revolt was the Baltic republic of Estonia, where the push for political reform...
Boskin proposed a two-tier system, with a flat monthly payment aimed at helping people stay out of poverty and the upper tier tied strictly to how much people paid into the system...