Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's popularity may be less a show-business phenomenon than a lesson in crowd psychology. "I'm the first on our street to see it," chirped one suburban matron. All kinds of people, it seems, have been infected by Exorcist fever. Teenage girls on triple-tier wedgies teeter down the aisle behind pin-striped businessmen carrying briefcases. A silver-haired woman clutching a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young and to contain a far higher than average proportion...
...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen
...stock "by a single or few like-minded financial institutions provides them with disproportionately large powers." Because institutional investors are attracted to the largest companies, the few men who control block purchases and sales often allow the stocks of smaller firms to languish. This has led to a two-tier stock market in which sound small and medium-sized corporations often cannot raise needed equity capital...
That was ten years ago, and although he does an occasional TV story for CBS news programs, Osgood, 40, is not certain that video is his métier. He thinks that he lacks the "graphic eye" necessary for good TV news pieces. Words and music are something else. He enjoys playing Bach on his electronic organ (favorite piece: Invention No. 8 in F). His love of sound is reflected in the off-the-cuff poetry he began writing while in the Army (among his lyrical credits: 25 published songs, including Nancy Wilson's Black Is Beautiful...
...Federal Reserve Board and the central banks of six European nations took a step last week that reflected growing confidence in the dollar. The bankers announced that they will consider themselves free to sell gold on the open market at any price they can get. Under the old "two-tier" system, in effect since 1968, they were allowed to sell their gold only to other central banks at the "official" price, now $42.22 an ounce. Meanwhile, prices on the free market this year soared to more than $125, as many speculators sold dollars and other currencies in order...