Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieu-Teared. One of the latest approaches is a U.S. proposal for a "two-tier" government for South Viet Nam. One Saigon government would control the non-Communist portion of the South and another would run the Communist-held parts-perhaps including all or most of Quang Tri and Binh Dinh provinces and a slice of Military Region II along the Laotian border...
BELGIUM. As in France, there is a two-tier foreign exchange market that makes speculation in the Belgian franc expensive. Banks cannot increase their lending to nonresidents above the level of last March 9, and there are restrictions on payment of interest on some foreign-owned bank accounts...
...hardest-hit areas were the southern tier of New York, Pennsylvania and the Virginia coast. Dikes broke in Richmond, flooding 200 blocks of the central city. Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, was virtually cut off by the floodwaters from the Susquehanna, where the river flow was put at 550 billion gallons a day-the highest in nearly two centuries of record keeping. Governor Milton Shapp's $2.4 million executive mansion was flooded to its first-floor ceiling. Electric power failed; hospitals resorted to emergency generators. With roads, railways and the air port under water, President Nixon chose the only...
...knows the hedges and hazards, the sites and social slights of British steeplechasing the way a car owner knows the dashboard of his five-year-old sedan. He has used his experiences to produce ten more or less equestrian suspense stories that are also novels of métier and manners. His best books are Dead Cert (the first, written in 1962), Nerve (1964), For Kicks (1965), Odds Against (1966) and Forfeit (1969). At that level he belongs in the company of writers like John Buchan, who created a highly personal genre and then used it, beyond sheer entertainment...
...have worried. At Philharmonic Hall, the 1,500 who had paid $10 and $25 admission, plus the 1,200 who had paid $100 and $250 apiece for a black-tie champagne reception after the films, cheered him to the echo when he appeared with Oona in the first tier, and they watched the Little Tramp on-screen with such delighted empathy that the big concert hall all but glowed in the dark. When the movies were over, the audience turned in sudden, shouting ovation toward the dignified old man looking down on them, whose spry shadow had just been cavorting...