Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have recently ordered commercial members to turn down foreign deposits that appeared to be speculative -a job requiring detective work that is much easier to perform in the clubby world of European bankers than it would be in the U.S. The move could lead to a much wider "two-tier" exchange system, with separate rules for speculative and ordinary money flows...
MULTILEVEL PLATFORMS. Architect Michael Black was called in by Harold Slavkin, a Los Angeles molecular biologist, to plan a vacation house. He disposed of all furniture, building a complex of multilevel platforms covered with carpeting. Now guests sit, lie or sprawl, and flop from one tier to another as conversations catch their interest. "In a 10-ft. by 12-ft. area," says Slavkin's wife Kay, "we've had as many as twelve people in practically as many postures." Black also revamped the Slavkins' staid, traditional Los Angeles house. "The problem," he says, "was a cold, formal...
...support of the aircraft and was caught fudging about previous House votes on the plane by its principal House opponent, Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates. "If you vote for the SST," shouted Republican Leader Gerald Ford, "you are insuring 13,000 jobs today plus 50,000 jobs in the second tier and 150,000 jobs each year over the next ten years...
...quite what to make of him. Especially his feckless father. Lapped in beautiful women and dreams of martial acclaim, Charles snubbed and ignored the boy until, at the age of 16. Louis responded with a plot to seize the throne. It failed, but Louis had found his métier...
...Palm Beach) sped by advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front of the Beach Club a wedding party sang college songs and split Jack Daniel's on the tenth tier of the wedding cake...